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Anyone who says there may be a little bit of pain before we get things right need to talk to my farmers who are one crop away from bankruptcy. They don't have time. So we've got to be crisp on this implementation. Otherwise, we could do damage that's irreparable to farmers."
Speaking to CNN about tariffs, Senator Tillis said The Trump Tariff Tax is the largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history."
Former Vice President Mike Pence said We need some fairness here. We’ve been taken advantage of through Republican and Democrat administrations of the past and that has stopped,
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso said when asked how much runway Republicans would give Trump to prove his policies are working He’s walking us into the dumbest and most avoidable recession, probably in history,
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said about Trump If you thought today was bad, buckle up.”
A second GOP aide, also granted anonymity to describe discussions inside the party, would not predict a Republican jailbreak but predicted the economic turmoil was just beginning, with retaliatory tariffs from U.S. trading partners yet to kick in I think people need to go home and hear what their constituents are telling them,
It is poison that is going to spread across the land,
We will give them the benefit of the doubt and see how it goes,
Stock market has plummeted. Retirement savings are tanking. Consumer confidence is falling. Consumer expectations for the future are historically low,
You take something as simple as a T-shirt,
There’s no long term strategy,
I don’t have the president’s strongly held belief [that] this absolutely has to be done,
Even Republicans like Chuck Grassley know how incredibly unpopular these tariffs are,
said Shawn Phetteplace of Main Street Alliance, a network of roughly 30,000 small business owners that support left-of-center policies Donald Trump made one of the dumbest decisions he has ever made as president, and that’s saying something,
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Reciprocal tariffs [are] something that I think most people think makes sense,
I’m fully in support of that,
Rounds said of reining in executive power Donald Trump slapped tariffs on penguins and not on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,
A little whiskey under the right circumstances will refresh you. Too much whiskey under the wrong circumstances will make you drunk as a goat,
The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom,
Tariffs drive up the cost of goods and services. They are a tax on everyday working Americans,
McConnell said in a statement on Thursday
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