Gotteheimer, during an interview with MSNBC's Ana Cabrera, scoffed at a claim by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that Trump's decision Wednesday to pause stiffer tariffs on many countries above a 10% baseline was part of a plan, despite days of denying there would be such a pause.
"I don't really understand their strategy because every day is a new day of chaos," said Gottheimer, D-N.Y. "I think it's the art of stupidity."