Guys like Lutnick are ideologues who want a suicidal trade war with China and believe a sufficiently large economic shock will force on-shoring of a bunch of manufacturing. It won't work. But he obviously doesn't want admit, "We want to cause a severe recession or even another Great Depression."
None of the math adds up, which is why the regime has been withholding economic data and policy specifics even from its allies in Congress.