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GOP lawmakers thought the president was going to hit China not key U.S. allies.
By BURGESS EVERETT 05/31/2018 01:48 PM EDT Updated 05/31/2018 05:36 PM EDT
Republicans are bitterly protesting the Trump administrations decision to impose sweeping tariffs on U.S. allies alarmed that the White House ignored their frenzied lobbying campaign and afraid that the party could suffer at the polls in November.
The GOPs free-traders were mollified this spring as the Trump administration exempted U.S. allies from steel and aluminum tariffs imposed on other countries like China. But on Thursday, that all changed as President Donald Trump imposed 10 percent tariffs on aluminum imports and 25 percent tariffs on steel imports from the European Union, Canada and Mexico.
The move thrusts the GOP back into an internecine war over free-trade policies that have defined the party for decades, just as Republicans mobilize for a hotly contested midterm campaign.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) called it bad news and predicted imminent retaliation from the key U.S. allies. Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said there is "mounting evidence that these tariffs will harm Americans." And Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) warned that similar policies 90 years ago sparked the Great Depression.
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Ohiogal
(32,002 posts)Until you stop enabling this orange menace, you are all to blame. So stop with the pearl clutching and do something about it!
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)A few of them have the vapors over his policies but continue to support him through their inaction.
What are they afraid of regarding him anyway?
get the red out
(13,466 posts)R's keep backing him in the face of extreme corruption, but they are somehow shocked that he has shitty trade policies? Idiots.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Is he a king, dictator?that he doesnt have to consult congress? This is just a way for trump to abuse his power to hurt companies, world wide and at home , that he is personally attacking. This should be stopped us and the world should not have our economies affected by a moron that knows nothing about business.R
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...because a rich white man is not doing what would please a lot of other rich white men.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Your "president", your party, your policies, your government, your shitty, stupid voters.
You made the mess.
Either start working to clean it up, or learn to shut the fuck up.