CBS quoted several people familiar with the matter as saying that although the White House has been trying to claim that Trump administration officials have a consistent position on U.S. tariff policy, some internal discrimination about the policy was revealed just weeks before Trump signed the so-called "reciprocal tariff" executive order on April 2: Senior Trump adviser warned in private conversations that some tariff plans could have devastating effects on global financial markets and plunge the U.S. economy into a spiral decline. CBS said U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besent and Trump’s senior adviser to trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro had a dispute in late March in the office of White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles. According to several insiders, Navarro advocates a unified 25% full tariff on $3 trillion of imported goods; while Becent, a former Wall Street investor, warned that the move would trigger market turmoil and outlined a variety of risk scenarios. The report said that fierce words continued to emerge.