Rick Wilson
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We've had 36,000 people lose their jobs in my state because of bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
We've had this amount of economic damage in terms of lost jobs and lost productivity and lost wages and small businesses having to close because of these tariffs.
If you look at the overall national polling, there's a brand new Siena New York Times poll out today.
Trump is underwater on economic issues by an average of 23%, depending on the issue.
Inflation, taxes, jobs, all that stuff.
He's the most unpopular president on economic matters since Jimmy Carter during the worst period of the stagflation that happened when I was a kid.
This is poison.
The tariffs are poison.
The big bad bill is poison.
And Democrats need to be on this.
The affordability thing and the fact that Donald Trump isn't a free market guy.
He's a big government guy.
He's not a guy who believes in free enterprise.
He believes in who's going to bribe him the most.
And countries that have bribed him got out of the tariffs.
The ones that didn't have not.
Exemptions.
Yeah, you know, here's the thing.
This is one of those black-letter constitutional law questions about the power of tariffs.
Only Congress can raise and impose taxes, and only Congress can levy tariffs.