(SEMAFOR) WH adviser criticizes GOP tariff plans Tasos Katopodis/Getty “Semafor World Economy Summit” International finance ministers and CEOs in Washington this week are gushing about the US economy, a top Biden administration official told Semafor on Thursday. “All they’re talking about is the strength of the US economy,” White House National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard said at Semafor’s World Economy Summit, hosted on the sidelines of the World Bank and IMF meetings. But she warned that Republican tariff proposals could “take us back” to pandemic-era price increases, calling them “far more disruptive than anything we’ve seen since the 1930s.” A Financial Times poll released Thursday showed that more Americans trust Republican nominee Donald Trump with the economy than his rival Kamala Harris, whose agenda was deemed “vastly superior” by 23 Nobel Prize-winning economists.