(3 Apr 2025)
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Washington – 3 April 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Rick Scott, (R) Florida:
"I was there, I’m excited. Here we have a president who gives a damn about American jobs. That’s exactly what this is. I’m sick and tired of the rest of the world taking advantage of our workers and our companies. So the rest of the world, they want to put barriers up to our companies, which impacts American jobs. That has ended."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Rick Scott, (R) Florida:
"They should reduce their tariffs to zero. Stop making it difficult for American companies to compete. I mean if you — look I believe in trade. When I was governor of Florida I did 15 trade initiatives. I want trade. I think it’s really good for our country, and it’s good for other countries. But this idea that other countries can make it difficult for an American company to be successful, all they’re doing is reducing American jobs."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Eric Schmitt, (R) Missouri:
"We’ve had 90,000 factories move out of this country since NAFTA. It may have worked for the elites and the governing class and the people who get rich in northern Virginia around here, but it hasn’t worked for real people. So we’re going to have balance. We’re going to actually tell these countries, you’ve been ripping us off, and we’re going to treat you like you treat us. So I think if you combine that with tax policy of making these tax cuts permanent for working folks, you combine that with energy dominance, you combine that with regulatory reform. You combine that with not paying illegal immigrants taxpayer dollars, with a fair trade policy. We’re going to have prosperity in this country. So I mean, paying attention, you know, the stock market, this day versus the next day. And we could talk about ten-year treasuries. That actually looks pretty good right now. But I think that that misses the point. This is a much broader vision of actually taking on the forces that have worked against working people for generations."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Eric Schmitt, (R) Missouri:
"Ignoring the idea that there’s been trillions of dollars of investment in the first 100 days. We’re going to be building cars in this country. We’re gonna have people who have jobs building Honda vehicles, Mercedes Benz, Nvidia chips are going to be made here. Apple’s making record investment.
(Reporter: But people are paying more money now.)
Well listen, their interest rates are super high right now too because we’re spending more. We’re spending $2 trillion we don’t have. So I think to rebalance this equation, we actually have to make things. The idea that we can invent things in this country and never make them here, is a ruse. So, I think it doesn’t have to be this way. If we’re saying to these countries, we’re going to treat you like you treat us. Just take down your trade barriers. Take down the tariffs that you have against us. Why is it so? Why are we — Why are we okay with this?"
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Richard Blumenthal, (D) Connecticut:
"I think it’s heading us toward a catastrophic economic downturn, a recession along with disastrously rising prices. I’m seeing already my constituents in Connecticut fearful, angry, deeply troubled by potential job losses as well as higher prices for everything from gas to groceries."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chris Coons, (D) Delaware:
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