As they gear up to defend their majority next year, some Republican senators expressed hesitance Wednesday over President Donald Trump’s tariffs after he used a joint address before Congress to warn consumers of further economic pain and pleaded with farmers to stick by him.
Behind their collective hesitancy to endorse the 25 percent import fees the Republican president has slapped on many Canadian and Mexican goods, 20 percent tariffs in place on Chinese-made items and his threatened “reciprocal” taxes on imports from other countries was a wait-and-see approach.
“There’ll be a little disturbance, but we’re OK with that,” Trump said in the House chamber Tuesday night. “It won’t be much.”
