White House downplays economic 'blips' as stock market tumbles

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The federal government could shut down this weekend, too, if Congress doesn't extend federal funding - a possibility Trump acknowledged to reporters on Sunday night.
44% : Trump added another 10 percent to tariffs on all Chinese products last week, bringing the total tax on some imports from China to 45 percent.
38% : "The Street can't take not knowing the rules of the game under Trump with recession fears growing, and this is causing a mini panic for tech investors," Ives said in an email.
34% : The growing conviction that Trump will stick by massive new tariffs regardless of the economic fallout -- amplified by the president's refusal to rule out a recession on Sunday -- fueled the drop across equity markets.
30% : He said Thursday that he is not looking at the stock market, and said in an interview broadcast Sunday that it will take "a little time" before Americans see a payoff from his policies. Trump also declined to rule out a recession.
26% : "I hate to predict things like that," Trump said.

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