Trump to attend Tennessee-Texas game as tariff cuts loom

Trump plans Knoxville visit

President Trump will fly to Knoxville on Saturday morning and attend the University of Tennessee’s football game against the University of Texas. The game between the Tennessee Volunteers and Texas Longhorns is scheduled to begin at noon.

The visit comes as senators approach their final opportunity before the Senate recess to pass the Protect College Sports Act. After the recess, Congress will enter a lame-duck period—the time between an election and the start of the next congressional term.

The timing places Trump at a major college sporting event while the Senate faces a decision involving college athletics. The act’s next step depends on whether senators take it up before leaving for recess. No election or candidate race is directly connected to the Knoxville appearance.

U.S. and China plan tariff reductions

The United States and China are also set to reduce tariffs on billion worth of goods. Tariffs are taxes charged on imported products, and changes to them can affect what importers pay to bring covered goods into a country.

The planned reductions are an economic policy development separate from Trump’s Tennessee trip. The next details to establish are which products will be covered, how deeply the tariff rates will be cut and when the reductions will take effect.

Those implementation decisions will determine how the policy applies to businesses that import the affected goods. The billion figure describes the value of goods covered by the tariff action, not the amount of tariffs being collected or eliminated.