(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. 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."
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3. 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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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chris Coons, (D) Delaware:
"President Trump’s whole justification for slapping tariffs on our closest partners and allies is to bring manufacturing back to the United States, and at the exact time that he is harming our relationships around the world, making costs higher for working Americans, this program that helps small and medium manufacturers grow has been eliminated. They don’t know what they’re doing. And the consequences for our economy, for costs, for our families and communities will be harmful and lasting. Thank you."
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STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariffs flips on its head a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers and is likely, economists say, to raise prices for Americans by thousands of dollars each year while sharply slowing the U.S. economy.
The White House is gambling that other countries will also suffer enough pain that they will open up their economies to more American exports, leading to negotiations that would reduce the tariffs imposed Wednesday. Or, the White House hopes, more companies — both American and foreign — will reverse their moves toward global supply chains and bring more production to the United States to avoid higher import taxes.
"I’m sick and tired of the rest of the world taking advantage of our workers and our companies… That has ended," said Senator Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida who said he was excited to attend Trump’s tariff announcement Wednesday.
A Republican Senator from Missouri, Eric Schmitt, pointed to companies like Apple which plans to invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, and argues there is still incentives to make products in America.
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