higher prices, are inflation and what s going to happen with that and how they are handling that and if they re doing so competently. what can the white house do and what can t they do when it comes to the economy? reporter: so when you talk to officials, they say, okay, a lot of this has to do with what the federal reserve is going to do. it is their job to tame inflation. you ve seen them raising interest rates and some of the hawkish comments coming from jay powell. that is what they are saying is going to be who it s up to to tame inflation. but there are other steps the white house could take, ones they have not taken yet but are being discussed inside the west wing. one of those is removing those trump era tariffs on chinese goods. these are tariffs president trump put in place back in 2018 on about two-thirds of the goods that the u.s. imports from china. it s a 25% tariff. an so there has been an ongoing debate and there is division inside the white house over how to handle