Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement:

Donald Trump and congressional Republicans promised to lower the high cost of living on day one. The extremists have failed. 

Instead, Republicans have worsened the affordability crisis, forcing the American people to pay thousands of dollars in additional costs per year because of the disastrous Trump Tariffs. Donald Trump’s failed economic policies and global trade war waged with irresponsible, on-again, off-again tariffs on our allies and trading partners have generated massive uncertainty, threatened the economic well-being of the American people and damaged our country’s standing around the world. 

Unfortunately, Republican sycophants refuse to serve as a check-and-balance on an increasingly out-of-control executive branch. House Democrats will continue to push back aggressively in the Congress, in the courts and in our communities to protect the American people from the right-wing extremism being jammed down our throats.

The President must refrain from any further unilateral action on tariffs. Donald Trump’s my-way-or-the-highway approach to economic policy has been a complete and total failure.

Enough.

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