Mitch McConnell says Trump’s trade war will raise prices: ‘Tariffs are bad policy’

CNBC ^ | Feb 12 | Kevin Breuninger

[RandFan]

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell is speaking out against President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans, warning that starting trade wars with U.S. economic partners could force higher costs on American families and businesses.

Trump’s “aggressive proposals leave big, lingering concerns for American industry and workers,” the senator from Kentucky wrote in an op-ed Wednesday in Louisville’s Courier-Journal.

The op-ed is a rare example of a senior Republican in Congress who is willing to publicly criticize the president’s economic strategy.

Trump, who has called tariff his “favorite word,” recently slapped broad import duties on Canada, Mexico and China, plus additional tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

He delayed the start of tariffs on Mexico and Canada by one month, after the two U.S. allies pledged to boost efforts to police border crossings and drug trafficking. But that pause is set to expire in the first week of March.

[RandFan]

McConnell wrote an Anti-Trump op-ed in Kentucky ...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Shut up and eat your Jello and Peas Mitch.

[Col Frank Slade]

Tariffs hurt China Mitch.

[gibsonguy]

FU Mitch, that is all

[Red Badger]

Tariffs make FOREIGN goods more expensive.

Which, in turn, makes DOMESTIC goods less expensive............

[Flaming Conservative]

He’s not a turtle; he’s a SNAKE!

[gundog]

And threats of tariffs are great leverage. Mitch isn’t a dynamic thinker. Mitch isn’t a dynamic anything.

[frogjerk]

McConnell is bad policy

[C210N]

Mitch McConnell says...

That's not possible.

[Vendome]

WTF ever Kommie Beach...

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Mitch needs to go.

[frogjerk]

Tariffs raise prices, there is no question. Tariffs that get other worthless countries to do what is fair, not so much.

[Zathras]

Turtle has gone full McCain.
We see the real person who has been running the GOP Senate all these years.
No wonder they never got anything done.

[Blennos]

McConnell must be into early stage dementia. He is making himself into a pathetic laughingstock. Where is his family?

[DesertRhino]

Bad for his Chinese family’s trade business.

[HighSierra5]

I hope the brakes fail on Bitches wheelchair.

[BitWielder1]

But taxes, regulations, waste and grift does not?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

At this point I’m betting that Mitch will unofficially support the Dem who runs to take his office when he retires.

[SaxxonWoods]

Anything that interferes with McConnell’s graft is bad policy.

[circlecity]

I guarantee McConnell didn’t write or even dictate this.