Congress is Out But Trump’s Trade War Rolls On

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As Washingtonians know, we have four seasons in the nation’s capital: A mild winter, a scorching summer, a beautiful autumn and yellow dust season that causes most of us to question why we live in a place where we need air conditioning when it’s in the mid-70s. My kids asked if they could “wash” my car, so if you see someone driving around with a muddy yellow cake-covered vehicle driving down I-66, please wave, that’s me.