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The More Trump Insists His Mexico Tariff Threat Is Not A Bluff, The More Convinced We Are That It Is…
Or at least it should be…
Update: Trump called off the tariffs before they went into effect.
To recap: President says he’ll slap 5% tariff on all goods coming from Mexico this coming Monday if the government there doesn’t block Central American migrants from reaching the U.S. border.And the President pledges those tariffs will go up every month from there, up to 25%. The announcement made in a statement from the President that begins:
“As everyone knows, the United States of America has been invaded by hundreds of thousands of people…”
Many Republicans even don’t like the idea of new tariffs, and also the expansion of tariffs as a weapon the President will wield for all kinds of things, not just having to do with economy and trade. Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford describing it, according to Politico, as such:
[The administration] “is trying to use tariffs to solve every problem but HIV and climate change.”
