In other news, the U.S. International Trade Commission says American companies have been harmed by imports of wood products from Brazil and China, so we can probably expect tariffs on those soon.
Meanwhile, new cases of the coronavirus identified in Iran and Lebanon are concerning World Health Organization (WHO) officials because they have no apparent link to the outbreak in China, meaning it could be spreading through other means.
Finally, Trump's chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told a private gathering what most of the world already knows: Republicans are completely full of shit on the deficit.
"My party is very interested in deficits when there is a Democrat in the White House. The worst thing in the whole world is deficits when Barack Obama was the president," Mulvaney said. "Then Donald Trump became president, and we're a lot less interested as a party."
Water is wet.
Have a good weekend, folks.