What is President Donald Trump finally hopes to achieve with his new pricing regime? It depends on the member of the Congress of the GOP you ask.
The objective, according to some, is to revitalize the American industry. “We have taken and dismantled factories, factories and other industrial installations, and essentially sent them abroad for the benefit of other countries,” said Republican representative Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin. “It is time for us to rebuild the American economy.”
Others consider the regime as the basis of daring negotiations, although risky, to reduce the trade obstacles of other countries in the United States.
“The question is: will they work an agreement where they lower the barriers on both sides?” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas asked his “verdict” podcast on Monday on Monday, referring to the price of 46% that Trump should perceive against Vietnam. “I hope they will do it.”
And other Republicans see it as a way to generate income, perhaps to help pay tax reductions.
“He will bring them to the table or increase income,” said Tim Buchett from Tennessee to Bi, referring to the prospect that certain countries in search of a trade agreement may not obtain one. “Anyway, America wins.”
Each of these objectives is in tension with each other.
If the objective is to bring back national manufacturing by increasing the cost of importing goods abroad, the prices would be long term and largely non -negotiable. If the objective is to reduce trade barriers, this will not do much to increase American manufacturing. And if the objective is to increase a large amount of income, this assumes that foreign products will continue to circulate in the United States at a similar rate, even with higher prices and an increase in interior manufacturing.
It is not exactly the fault of the Congress Republicans that they have contradictory ideas on Trump’s intentions: in the days following the announcement of Trump’s “Liberation Day”, the president and his advisers offered various justifications for the prices.
“They can both be real,” said Trump on Monday to find out if his prices were negotiable or permanent. “There may be permanent prices, and there can also be negotiations.”
The White House has reported in recent days that certain commercial negotiations have been underway, leading the markets to rally on Tuesday before dropping again. But many in the congress are mainly trying to read tea leaves.
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a tariff skeptical, said that the testimony of the American commercial representative Jamieson Greer before the Senate finance committee led him on Tuesday to believe that the administration is mainly interested in negotiating better trade agreements with other countries.
“I think it is interesting that the products we are talking about are crucial from the point of view of national security, they do not apply prices. I just find it interesting,” said Johnson. “I mean, if you want to use prices to bring back the manufacturing, you would think you would apply them to these particular products.”
The Republicans manage the multiplicity of Trump’s messaging in different ways.
During his episode of Podcast on Monday, Cruz suggested that Trump advisers are made up of “angels and demons” – the angels being those who are eager to conclude new commercial offers, the demons being those who want the prices to remain in place.
“Elon is one of the angels,” said Cruz, referring to the support of de facto Doge, Elon Musk, without trade barriers between the United States and Europe. (Société separately, Musk was publicly tailed with Peter Navarro, one of Trump’s superior advisers on trade.)
Others say they just want to give Trump more time.
“I do not know what will happen. I mean, in my lifetime, we have never seen an attempt to reset on this scale with prices,” said senator Josh Hawley of Missouri to Bi. “These are unexplored waters. But here is what I know with certainty is that we cannot continue to do what we do.”
What many Republicans are suitable is that Trump’s prices are likely to bring at least short -term economic pain.
“Import car dealers will start hurting, wine and spirits hurt … It’s a mixed bag, but people will start hurting,” said Bucchett about the impact on his district. “I’m a fan, I’m just telling you, it’s going to hurt.”
“This is a huge amount of disturbance here,” said Johnson. “Coming from the business world, what you want in business – if you are going to invest, if you are going to risk your capital – you want as much certainty and stability as possible.”
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