WASHINGTON _ President Donald Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, is trying to help a South Carolina business that could be hurt by the White House's trade policies.
Mulvaney, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina, has asked administration officials to protect Element Electronics, a television assembly plant in his old district that has said it will close because of tariffs.
In an attempt to get more favorable trade deals for the United States, Trump is imposing and proposing tariffs on a wide variety of imported parts and supplies needed to make domestic goods. Element says new tariffs on a television part made in China would threaten its existence.
