President Donald Trump then spoke to the media next to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who participated in the Senate Republic in Washington, DC on March 26, 2019 The party’s weekly policy lunch meeting.
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Republican Senator Mitch McConnell is opposing the president Donald TrumpExtensive tariff plans warned that a trade war with U.S. economic partners could cost more American households and businesses.
Trump’s “proactive proposal leaves major concerns for U.S. industry and workers, Kentucky Senator Written in column articles Wednesday in Louisville Express Magazine.
The expert is a rare example of the senior Republican Party in Congress who is willing to publicly criticize the president’s economic strategy.
Trump calls it a “favorite word” and he has recently slapped extensive import duties in Canada, Mexico and China, as well as additional tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
He delayed the start of Mexico and Canada tariffs by a month after two U.S. allies promised to promote efforts to police transit and drug trafficking. But this pause will expire in the first week of March.
McConnell admitted on his album: “It’s time for America’s closest neighbors to take the crisis on our border seriously.”
“But, regardless of our best intentions, tariffs are the wrong policy,” he wrote.
McConnell also considered how Trump’s trade protectionist policies would hurt his Kentuckians.
He pointed to 75,000 Kentucky farms that sell crops internationally, as well as thousands of jobs in the state’s automotive industry that rely on global supply chains.
Then there is bourbon. In 2023, Bluegrass State winemakers produce and estimate 95% of bourbon According to data from an industry group, global sales.
The previous year, all $500 million worth of goods exported by Kentucky were bourbon.
“Blanket tariffs make it more expensive to do business in the United States and increase consumers across the board,” he wrote.
The 82-year-old resigned from Senate leadership in November Nearly twenty years that power. McConnell has been a target of Trump’s anger as the two fell after the then-majority leader Refusing to support Trump’s false claims About his losses in the 2020 election.
Four years later, McConnell still Recognize Trump For the President.
