Trump’s national security strategy wants spy agencies to watch world supply chains


President Donald Trump’s national security strategy tasks the U.S. intelligence community with monitoring global supply chains as part of a sweeping goal to decouple the nation’s economy from foreign adversaries and advance American economic interests.

The demands listed in the 33-page strategy document published late Thursday reflect how aggressively the Trump administration is directing federal agencies to treat economic policy as a national security matter, and it comes after months of tariff fights that have become a defining flashpoint of the president’s economic agenda.

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Source: NextGov News


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