Steven Overly

President Joe Biden is eager to show he is delivering for steelworkers and other unions, but he faces immense pressure from businesses and European allies to lift steel tariffs that Trump imposed.

The Biden administration and Congress are under mounting pressure to relieve a global chip shortage that has idled manufacturing workers and raised prices for some consumer products, complicating the economic recovery.

Chinese officials and multinational companies have been pushing for a rapid easing of trade tensions. Instead, the White House is signaling to Beijing that future conversations about trade will happen in concert with foreign allies and only come after China shows progress on issues like climate change and human rights.

Facebook endured a deluge of political scrutiny in Donald Trump’s Washington. It’s poised to face even worse in the Joe Biden era.

President Donald Trump aimed for a clear-cut win over China when he demanded that TikTok's Beijing-based parent sell the popular video-sharing app to an American company or be banned from operating in the United States. Now he may have to settle for less.

The Trump administration has also directly engaged executives such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the issue in recent days, despite President Donald Trump's sharp and sustained criticism of their companies over issues like corporate taxes, Postal Service fees and business in China. “It’s an interesting irony, isn't it? And a bit of a realignment,” said Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog, a public interest group that regularly scrutinizes tech companies. “T

The wildly popular video-sharing app TikTok may not be the competitor that Silicon Valley wants, but it could provide what the U.S. tech industry needs right now — a Chinese-owned foil to divert the ire of lawmakers in Washington.

Washington's growing antitrust war against Silicon Valley is opening a rift among Republicans — with the Koch family’s vast political operation and other small-government groups emerging as the tech industry’s key allies on the issue.

Even as some of the industry's biggest names confront mounting questions about their size and power, they can't always rely on backup from the trade groups they've showered with money over the years.

When Silicon Valley's biggest players moved last year to derail a bill to combat online sex trafficking that they believed could cause problems for their industry, they had every reason to think their deep influence in Washington would do the trick, just as it had so many times in the past.

SAN FRANCISCO — The conventional wisdom about the tech industry’s relationship with Donald Trump is that it's a street brawl, with Silicon Valley's liberal CEOs clashing with the president on everything from immigration to climate change to transgender rights. But the reality is that Silicon Valley is getting much of what it wants.

Silicon Valley is racing to support and shape President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax proposal, despite months of distancing itself from his policies on everything from immigration to climate change.