President Donald Trump is set to announce his plans for reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners on “Liberation Day” Wednesday at the White House Rose Garden.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said he hopes Trump will take the time to fully explain his plan to the American people and reassure them that any economic pain will be temporary.
“He’s got to communicate. People in my state back in Alabama, they’re asking me questions when I go out. ‘Coach, what about the tariffs? Are they going to hurt us for the long run or short run?’ President Trump needs to communicate to the American people what he’s doing, why he’s doing it,” Coach said Monday on FOX Business News’ “Kudlow.”
Tuberville said other countries have profited off uneven trade for too long at the expense of Americans.
“I want him to tell everybody, listen, we have built China, the American people — on the backs of the American people,” he continued. “We have built Europe. We have built the Middle East. Most of the money to come invest in all these other countries and these contents have been built on the backs of the American people. It’s time for money to come back home to the American people so we can build our country the way we want to build it. And it’s time to start our own party and not allow the rest of the country to just take money from the American people right and left as they’ve done for years and years and years.”
Tuberville said Trump’s tariffs would help bring back American jobs and manufacturing after some initial suffering.
“This is one thing that President Trump has got to sell, but it’s also going to work. It’s going to be a slow pain first before we get the gain. We have to get jobs back in this country. We have to get manufacturing to come back. We can’t control that as the Senate. The one thing we can control, as you said, we can control the tax cuts. We have to get those done this week. We let President Trump do the tariffs; we do the tax cuts.”
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