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I know they have basically till October, there's a deal on the table.

Potentially then, would you look to maybe decrease the tariff level?

When it comes to this extension on rare earths, are you going to need one in October?

Or will you think the United States is in a place where we don't need an extension?

How much will rare earths be on the table of this discussion with the president and Xi Jinping in May?

Do you think you're going to have to meet your counterparts again before the big leader meeting in Beijing?

Can you give us any sense of what the main deliverables are going to be in Beijing?

Ambassador Greer, thank you so much for your time this morning.

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A lot of people are hoping that there is some sort of initial public offering of those companies.

Are you preparing them for that at some point later this year or next year?

Director Pulte, a lot of people on Wall Street were pretty excited actually about your purchases of MBS, of mortgage-backed securities, and saying that this seems like it should be something that would bring down spreads.

They were less excited about the idea of preventing institutions from buying single-family homes, saying that it really wasn't based

in economics, considering that in certain regions in the country, there's actually a glut of houses, that this is not because of institutions that account for a relatively small portion of overall buyers.

What do you say back about the economic fundamentals behind this type of proposal and why it would bring down affordability and increase the supply of houses, which is the ultimate issue that a lot of people say?

Director Pulte, did you study this in terms of the supply-demand dynamic and whether it actually would reduce the cost of houses for individuals should there be a ban on single-family housing, on institutions buying single-family homes?

Because a lot of people in the markets who have supported President Trump's policies, I'm thinking of Neil Dutta in particular, came out and said, this is faulty economics.

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You have GDP 2.6% roughly over the next few years.

Are you saying that the appropriate growth rate is something like that 2% and 2.6% and not necessarily 3% or above?