PANews reported on April 3 that according to Jinshi, Kimberly Clausing, a former Biden administration official and non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, called Trump's tariff announcement on Wednesday "very stubborn and much worse than I expected." "I expected things to be bad, but I didn't expect this level of self-harm. It's shocking that anyone thought this was a good idea. I'd be shocked if we can get through this without a recession and Trump doesn't have to reverse his policies."