“While President Donald Trump’s love of tariffs is often attributed to his desire for leverage in negotiations, the ones he seeks to use to reshore manufacturing are inherently intended to be non-negotiable."...more
4/23/2025
/ Energy Policy ,
Federal Budget ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
International Trade ,
Medicaid ,
Oil & Gas ,
Renewable Energy ,
Section 232 ,
Tariffs ,
Trump Administration ,
US Trade Policies
The Cozen Lens -
•President Trump relies on his worldview and instincts when it comes to tariff policy, creating a regime where winners and losers will be heavily driven by his own perceptions and preferences.
•GOP...more
“President Trump's reciprocal tariffs have introduced significant uncertainty into the economy. The one certainty though is that Trump loves tariffs and they will therefore likely continue to play a central role in his...more
4/9/2025
/ Healthcare ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Retaliatory Tariffs ,
Section 232 ,
Section 301 ,
Semiconductors ,
Tariffs ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Reform ,
Trade Relations ,
Trade Wars ,
Trump Administration ,
US Trade Policies
“Despite the myriad factions among congressional Republicans, President Donald Trump has for the most part imposed his will on GOP lawmakers. He is now shifting his focus to the independent judiciary.” — Howard Schweitzer,...more
4/1/2025
/ Constitutional Challenges ,
Debt Ceiling ,
Federal Budget ,
Fraud Abuse and Waste ,
Government Agencies ,
Government Efficiency ,
Judicial Authority ,
Legislative Agendas ,
OMB ,
Proposed Legislation ,
SCOTUS ,
Social Security ,
Trump Administration
"Democrats are struggling with how and when to resist President Donald Trump’s agenda. And it doesn’t help their cause that Trump is unifying the House GOP’s own notoriously fractious caucus.” — Howard Schweitzer, CEO, Cozen...more
3/26/2025
/ Debt ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Funding ,
Federal Reserve ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Political Candidates ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Reform ,
Trump Administration
“President Trump loves tariffs because he believes they provide him powerful negotiating leverage with foreign leaders. But he also loves them because they are his preferred mechanism for reshoring US manufacturing. While the...more
3/19/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Colleges ,
Educational Institutions ,
Export Controls ,
Federal Funding ,
National Security ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Tariffs ,
Technology Sector ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
Universities
“With the Trump administration’s aggressive plans for a rollback of federal regulation, blue states are already looking to fill the void, demonstrating that nature abhors a vacuum in the political realm as well.” — Howard...more
“At the heart of President Trump’s effort to expansively redefine the power of the presidency is a struggle for control of the government’s purse strings, underscoring the aphorism that money is power.” — Howard Schweitzer,...more
“With the return of President Trump and his America First foreign policy, leaders around the world are coming to terms with the realization that Trump’s first term approach to geopolitics can no longer be viewed as an...more
“While the Trump administration continues to implement its executive agenda at a breakneck pace, congressional Republicans are literally forced to deal with consensus by committee to realize their legislative agenda.” —...more
2/19/2025
/ Congressional Committees ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Federal Budget ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Medicaid ,
Reconciliation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Reform ,
Trump Administration
“President Trump has given Elon Musk unprecedented power and room to run to remake the executive branch. But to the extent that Musk deviates from remaking it in Trump’s image, the former runs the risk of becoming more of a...more
2/12/2025
/ Budget Cuts ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Department of Education ,
Elon Musk ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Budget ,
Government Efficiency ,
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ,
OMB ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Treasury ,
USAID
“Besides disrupting policy in Washington, the Trump administration is looking to disrupt fundamentally how Washington operates. Thus, even as Trump’s team loses some prominent policy fights, it still sees value in the impact...more
2/4/2025
/ Constitutional Challenges ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Donald Trump ,
Executive Authority ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Employees ,
Federal Funding ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Government Efficiency ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
National Security ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Tariffs ,
Trump Administration ,
USAID
“Despite all the discussion of spending cuts under the new unified GOP control in Washington, two words that President Trump did not utter even once during his inaugural address: deficit reduction.” — Howard Schweitzer, CEO,...more
1/29/2025
/ China ,
Debt Ceiling ,
Deficit Reduction ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Export Controls ,
Federal Budget ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Medicaid ,
Tariffs ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Reform ,
Trade Policy ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration
“President Trump is seen above all else as a disruptor hell-bent on upsetting the established ways of governing. However, even disruption itself has to follow a process in Washington.” — Howard Schweitzer, CEO, Cozen O’Connor...more
1/22/2025
/ Congressional Review Act ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Deregulation ,
Donald Trump ,
Executive Orders ,
Government Efficiency ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
OMB ,
Public Policy ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Trump Administration
“While Republicans have taken unified control of the federal government, President-elect Donald Trump is going to lean heavily on an expansive use of executive power from his first day back in the Oval Office as he has...more
1/15/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Border Security ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Donald Trump ,
Energy Sector ,
Executive Orders ,
Immigration ,
Immigration Procedures ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
Migrants ,
National Security ,
Offshore Drilling ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Renewable Energy ,
Tariffs ,
Temporary Protected Status ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
U.S. Treasury
“Republicans generally agree on their substantial legislative priorities as they prepare to take the governing reins in the new year. The challenge of governing in Washington though is that process often trumps substance.” —...more
12/18/2024
/ Antitrust Division ,
Big Tech ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Donald Trump ,
Enforcement ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Political Parties ,
Populism ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Trump Administration ,
Ways and Means Committee
“President-elect Trump is re-entering the Oval Office with an even bolder and more muscular approach to his America First policies. But Trump’s policymaking isn’t the only thing to have evolved over the past four years – so...more
12/11/2024
/ Abraham Accords Peace Agreement ,
America First Trade Policy ,
Canada ,
China ,
Donald Trump ,
Foreign Policy ,
Geopolitical Risks ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
Mexico ,
NATO ,
Tariffs ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
U.S. Treasury ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
“CEOs tended to take a wait and see approach at the start of the first Trump administration. But it would be a mistake not to engage early and often with Trump 2.0.” — Howard Schweitzer, CEO, Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies...more
12/4/2024
/ Big Tech ,
C-Suite Executives ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
CEOs ,
CFTC ,
China ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
OCC ,
Presidential Appointments ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Tariffs ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Trump Administration ,
USTR
“Entering office with four years of on-the-job training this time around, President-elect Trump and his advisors have a much better sense of how to manipulate the levers of government power – and they intend to push the...more
“President-elect Trump is quickly centralizing power in the White House and looking to install loyalists in Cabinet agencies with the goal of avoiding the internal dissension that at times plagued his first administration.”...more
The Cozen Lens-
•Donald Trump’s legal battles are taking significant time away from his campaign, but former advisors and key allies are preparing for his potential reelection.
•Early polling of the 2024 presidential...more
The Cozen Lens-
•A second Trump administration would likely include both familiar faces from his first term and newcomers, but a lack of institutional guardrails means that former President Trump’s personnel choices will be...more
The Cozen Lens-
•With Nikki Haley announcing her bid for the presidency last week, she represents the first of what will likely be several more announcements this year. Right now, the biggest unanswered question is whether...more
Like every February 1st since the inaugural episode on February 1, 2017, Mike Schmidt is joined by his colleague and the CEO of Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, Howard Schweitzer, to reflect on the state of politics in DC...more
On March 18, President Trump signed the new federal Coronavirus legislation providing significant changes to the FMLA and paid sick leave requirements (effective April 2, 2020). Mike Schmidt is joined in this episode by...more
3/19/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
New Legislation ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Sick Leave Act ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Public Health ,
Sick Leave ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety