2 weeks Ago
It’s time for Congress to reassert its Article 1 powers and stop Trump’s tariff madness. To say that Donald Trump’s announced tariffs have backfired is a monumental understatement. Retirement savings in 401k plans and individual stocks are being decimated.
Corporations that rely on global supply chains are in free fall. Friendly trading partners to the U.S.
are responding with their own retaliatory tariffs. This intolerable environment will drive the US and the global economy into a recession, or worse. The reason is clear.
Trump is playing with tariffs like a toddler with a loaded gun. He has no idea what he is doing, just incorrect theories and a boatload of grudges. (By the way, what have the wildlife of the otherwise uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands ever done to deserve tariffs?) Trump’s Stupid Trade War 2.
0 will harm consumers, as the cost of the tariffs will undoubtably be passed on to the final cost of their purchases, fueling the very inflation that Trump promised to quell. Congress must reassert its Article 1 authority to set (and halt) tariffs and stop Trump before he does more damage. Tom Shafer, Roanoke.
