The White House on Thursday proposed to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border by taxing imports as part of a broader tax code overhaul, effectively endorsing an idea President Donald Trump criticized two weeks ago.5 J3 x& Y8 S/ j8 m! u/ {* Z
# w4 k `% d* w+ {9 EIn remarks to reporters, press secretary Sean Spicer said a plan was “taking shape now” to institute a 20% tax on imports from countries with which the U.S. runs a trade deficit, “like Mexico.”