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I want foreign countries to finally start forking over cash in order to have access to our markets,
Trump wrote in the book, according to an excerpt Our original Constitution did not even have an income tax,
If you want your tariff rate to be zero, then you build your product right here in America,
Trump said Wednesday at the White House For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike,
My advice to every country right now: Do not retaliate,
Bessent said in a Wednesday interview with Fox News Wednesday We tax and regulate and restrict our companies to death, and then we allow foreign countries that cheat to export their goods to us tax-free,
I believe it's very important that you have free trade, but we don't have free trade right now,
I have no intention of running for president."
When asked in 1987 whether he harbored presidential ambitions, Trump had quipped This is a great country. They laugh at us. Behind our backs, they laugh at us because of our own stupidity,
he declared, echoing sentiments that would define his later political rise There are methods which you could do it, ... I’m not joking.”
he told NBC News in a recent interview, adding bluntly Make no mistake: Goods made in America will be more expensive to manufacture and, ultimately, for consumers to purchase, with higher broad-based tariffs. At a time when Americans are tightening their belts, we would do well to avoid policies that heap on the pain. We ought to strengthen our friendships abroad, and reinforce our allies as pillars of American prosperity and security."
Former Republican Senate leader McConnell said The Trump Tariff Tax is the largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history."
Former Vice President Mike Pence said 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 OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE."
On his Truth Social website, Trump wrote The country that created, and has gained mightily from, the global trade system is now trying to destroy it,
Zanny Minton Beddoes, the editor in chief of the Economist, wrote in an email If you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then, very simply, you will have to pay a tariff — differing amounts, but a tariff — which will direct hundreds of billions of dollars and even trillions of dollars into our Treasury to strengthen our economy and pay down debt,
he told the gathering at the World Economic Forum The global economy is fundamentally different today than it was yesterday,
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a Thursday speech This is a huge change in how we deal with the world,
said Danielle Pletka of the conservative American Enterprise Institute That's a complete inversion in how US policy has worked,
said Hurlburt, now an associate fellow at think tank Chatham House It didn't work at all. The tariffs are much higher than anything we were expecting,
he said on condition of anonymity
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