Analysis: Republicans are raising the white flag on their trade war with Trump
A loader piles soybeans at the Frontier Coop in Schuyler, Neb., on Monday. By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow May 14 at 12:25 PM Perhaps no issue highlights how President Trump has remade the Republican Party better than trade.
“The retaliatory tariffs will have a significant consequence to Kansans,” Sen. Jerry Moran told Politico. But he went on to say there’s not much the Senate can do about it. “Really this authority rests in the president.” And Sen. Ben Sasse simply called tariffs bad policy: “Let’s be clear: The president is proposing a massive tax increase on American families."
Sen. Charles E. Grassley , the current Senate Finance chairman, represents a state on the front lines of the economic pain created by tariffs. He is leading a bipartisan effort to introduce legislation that would allow Congress to weigh in on any tariffs the president issues for national security reasons. He has also said he’ll block Trump’s renegotiated North American trade deal as long as Canadians and Mexican steel and aluminum is tariffed, Politico reports.
But that doesn’t explain why the Republican Party has shifted so much on trade under its congressional leaders’ feet. To some extent, that requires a deeper analysis than the present moment can provide. The reasons likely align with Trump’s rise: Americans’ growing sense of economic inequality, the feeling that globalization has left them behind, and Trump’s simplistic prescriptions that closing America’s borders — from China and Latin immigrants — can staunch the tide.
Brookings/PRRI There are some murmurs that farmers who have stood by Trump in states he won in 2016 are starting to break. Soybean farmers, pork producers and cherry producers in particular have said they’re struggling with the tariffs already in place, Paletta reports.
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