As you’ve probably heard, the Trump administration’s decision last January to start multiple trade wars with countries around the world has not been going well, particularly on the China front. For the past several months, the U.S. and Beijing have been going back and forth upping the ante in response to each other’s punitive measures. And on Tuesday, like a blundering toddler doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, the Trump administration unveiled additional levies on $200 billion of Chinese goods, hitting everything from tuna to tires to furniture to mattresses to components in flat-panel displays and phones. Naturally, that led China to announce it would have “no choice but to take necessary countermeasures,” likely in the form of “qualitative measures” like delaying investment approvals involving U.S. companies, increasing inspections of U.S. products at the border, or even consumer boycotts. That would make life pretty rough for major tech companies like Apple, Nvidia, and Broadcom, which get more than 20 percent of their sales from China, though they’d find themselves in good company with soybean farmers, who’ve said their businesses have taken a major hit since China slapped them with a 25 percent duty. What’s more, China is clearly irked by the U.S., accusing Trump’s administration of “acting erratically,” and saying it has “blatantly abandoned the consensuses that two sides have reached and insisted on fighting a trade war with China.” But Donald Trump is a self-described genius businessman who wrote The Art of the Deal, so surely he’s got a plan here, right? According to his Treasury secretary, not so much!

During a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told angry lawmakers that the administration has no strategy to resolve things with Beijing. Saying trade talks with China had “broken down,” Mnuchin basically admitted that the U.S. was out of ideas, and that it’s up to China to offer concessions—otherwise, the tariffs will continue. “Is there a master plan?” asked Representative Mia Love, to which we imagine Mnuchin became the human embodiment of the shrug emoji. Representative Jeb Hensarling, a supporter of the president, was unimpressed by Mnuchin’s claims that the Treasury is “monitoring the impact on the economy of all these trade issues,” telling the secretary, “I appreciate the words; I am concerned about the deeds.” Meanwhile, lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee didn’t get much more out of Trump official Manisha Singh, who heads the State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs:

“The administration needs to explain to Congress where this is all headed,” Senator Bob Corker told Singh. “To my knowledge, not a single person is able to articulate where this is headed, nor what the plans are, nor what the strategy is,” Corker said.