U.S. Sens. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) both backed President Donald Trump’s tariff plan announced on Wednesday.
The tariffs announced by Trump have spooked stock market investors on Thursday and Friday so far, leading to significant declines.
“People are panicking, but it’s more on the side of the legacy media and the people that really don’t understand. Everybody says ‘the stock market,’ the stock market is emotional. Eventually, that thing will turn around and it will go straight back up. We have got to have a reset in this country. We can’t do the same thing. It’s like running the ball up the middle and you’re not making any ground in football. Finally, sooner or later you’re going to have to pass it,” Tuberville told Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show” on Friday.
“President Trump is changing gears. He’s putting our country in a whole different light," he continued. "As I like to say, we’ve had a party for 249 years. We’ve invited the rest of the world to come to the party but they never brought anything. Now, we can’t continue to put the party on for the entire world because we’ve made all of them rich. So now, it’s time to bring gifts and drinks back to the party where the American people do not have the burden of the world on their shoulders.”
During an appearance on Huntsville radio WVNN's "The Dale Jackson Show” on Friday, Britt said she believes Trump on tariffs “has the sticking power because I believe he has to.”
“Every single thing he has done is something he has promised he would do on the campaign trail. The more he lifts the veil on these things I think the more we shake our heads and can not believe we have allowed the playing field or allowed these things to happen with liberal ideology being infiltrated into every aspect of various departments and agencies but specifically on tariffs when he put up that chart and it said China charges 67% tariffs on the United States and we’ve been allowing that to happen. The European Union, 39% tariffs on the United States, in what world is that fair? In what world is it fair that American consumers have to pay more for goods so we can push more money into the Chinese economy? No, thank you. I think he’s saying enough is enough. I believe in the workers of our great country and I believe they deserve a fair wage, a great wage, and great opportunity and that’s what he is creating. I’m excited about it. I believe he has the staying power and I believe it’s necessary so that we can create and have opportunities in years to come,” Britt said.
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