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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,
I don’t have the president’s strongly held belief [that] this absolutely has to be done,
You take something as simple as a T-shirt,
Stock market has plummeted. Retirement savings are tanking. Consumer confidence is falling. Consumer expectations for the future are historically low,
There’s no long term strategy,
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,
A little whiskey under the right circumstances will refresh you. Too much whiskey under the wrong circumstances will make you drunk as a goat,
Donald Trump slapped tariffs on penguins and not on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,
I’m fully in support of that,
Rounds said of reining in executive power 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 I would have expected more targeted tariffs to meet the needs of where countries are taking advantage of us, and perhaps a more modest approach in the amounts,
Republican Senator Jerry Moran told reporters We can't afford a trade war that lasts for two or three years, leaving our product off the shelves,
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