Joan E Greve
Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon and the ranking member of the Senate finance committee, excoriated Donald Trump over his announcement that he would move forward with his planned tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada.
“Trump is driving the U.S. economy straight into a wall and expecting American families to serve as human crash test dummies,” Wyden said in a statement.
“Slapping tariffs on everything Americans buy from Canada, Mexico, and China will mean higher prices on groceries, gas and cars, with fewer jobs and lower pay when our closest trading partners respond to Trump’s trade war by buying fewer American products.”
Wyden described Trump’s expected tariffs as a betrayal of the voters who carried him to the White House, predicting that the policy would have a chilling effect on all US alliances.
“Anyone who voted for Donald Trump because they wanted lower prices and a fairer economy has a right to feel betrayed by his economic sabotage,” Wyden said. “And it is hard to see why any foreign leader would make a deal with someone who changes his mind daily and can’t stick to agreements from month to month.”
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