特朗普的高级经济政策顾问彼得·纳瓦罗（Peter Navarro）和威尔布尔·罗斯（Wilbur Ross）在9月份的立场报告中指出，这些估算存在缺陷，因为它们没有考虑来自监管和能源改革的“促进增长的意外之喜”以及美国贸易赤字急剧收缩所带来额外收益。
Trump’s senior economic-policy advisers, Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross (Trump's pick for commerce secretary), argued in a position paper in September that these estimates are flawed, because they don’t take into account “growth-inducing windfalls” from regulatory and energy reforms, or the added bonanza that should arise from a sharp narrowing of America’s trade deficit.