Sen. Pat Toomey defended Trump amid the administration’s trade war with China, arguing that an eventual agreement with Beijing may be “worth the price” of the “absolutely painful” tariffs hammering American farmers.
Sen. Pat Toomey on Sunday defended President Donald Trump amid the administration’s trade war with China, arguing that an eventual agreement with Beijing may be “worth the price” of the “absolutely painful” tariffs hammering American farmers.
“I actually think the president is right to challenge China,” the Pennsylvania Republican told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” adding that he classifies the Asian power “in a distinct category separate from” other U.S. competitors and adversaries.“China is the world’s second biggest economy. It’s a revisionist power. It’s now, for the first time, attempting to be able to project force. It’s intimidating neighbors. It’s disrupting American institutions.
Tariffs are designed to get another country to change its approach to trade, but they also have an effect on consumers, raising prices on the imported goods they purchase.Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. “This agreement, if we reach one, won't solve all of those problems, and the tariffs are absolutely painful and dislocating,” he said. “But if, in the end, we end up with an agreement that gives us a meaningful reform of China’s most egregious behavior, we might look back and say, 'This was worth the price that we’re paying.'”
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