In the days before President Donald Trump suddenly paused most of the punishing tariffs on foreign countries he had revealed in early April, more than a dozen congressional lawmakers were tied to thousands of dollars’ worth of stock transactions,

Lawmakers made hundreds of trades after Trump's April 2 speech, as markets swung on news of sweeping new tariffs.

The U.S. will send take-it-or-leave-it trade offers to dozens of countries within the next two weeks, President Trump said Wednesday. Why it matters: Trump is suggesting time is running out for nations to make trade deals,