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Tariffs are a tax on consumers, and I'm not a fan of jacking up taxes on American consumers,
the Texas senator told Fox Business' Larry Kudlow on Thursday
That would be a great outcome, that would be good for America,
he 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 TrumpIf 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 inI think people need to go home and hear what their constituents are telling them,
he said
It is poison that is going to spread across the land,
Wyden said
We will give them the benefit of the doubt and see how it goes,
he told CNNI don’t have the president’s strongly held belief [that] this absolutely has to be done,
Johnson saidYesterday, the president made one of the dumbest decisions in history, one that will negatively impact every single American family, every single one,
Schumer charged in a press conference, flanked by other Democratic senatorsYou take something as simple as a T-shirt,
Draper saidStock market has plummeted. Retirement savings are tanking. Consumer confidence is falling. Consumer expectations for the future are historically low,
Schumer saidThere’s no long term strategy,
said DraperEven 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
If the result is our trading partners jack up their tariffs and we have high tariffs everywhere, I think that is a bad outcome for America,
Cruz continued before conceding that consumers will end up paying more as a result
My hope is these tariffs are short lived and they serve as leverage to lower tariffs across the globe,
he addedWhen [Smoot-Hawley] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years,
the senator continued, this time noting a congressionally-led tariff regime
They're not only bad economically, they're bad politically,
Paul stated
For too long, Congress has delegated its clear authority to regulate interstate and foreign commerce to the executive branch,
Grassley said in a statement
There is going to be massive economic heartbreak in this country” if Congress fails to undo to the tariffs
Kaine warned