US Trade Rep Jamieson Greer tells senators US is strong enough to withstand tariff mayhem that won’t be ‘resolved overnight’

NY Post ^ | 04/08/2025 | Ryan King

[ChicagoConservative27]

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told a committee full of skeptical senators Tuesday that escalating trade tensions won’t “be resolved overnight,” but insisted the US economy is strong enough to withstand President Trump’s duty regime.

“Our trade deficit, driven by these nonreciprocal conditions, is a manifestation [of] the loss of the nation’s ability to make, to grow, to build, and the president recognizes the urgency of the moment,” Greer told the Senate Finance Committee.

“Our large and persistent trade deficit has been over 30 years in the making, and it will not be resolved overnight, but all of this is in the right direction.”

Trump, 78, unveiled the largest slate of tariffs in nearly a century April 2, plunging the markets into disarray.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Rand Paul and Chuck Schumer must be pissed

[Capn Hayek]

Go ahead and mock bizarro drag queen schumer - playing the elderly librarian with glasses sliding down... their... nose all you like. I’ll join you.

But pretending that Rand Paul makes zero sense is blind, kool-aid folly.

Just because the idiot dims have hypocritically, nakedly, opportunistically decided to pretend to play kayfabe games as principled, free market conservatives is NO REASON not to look in the mirror.

Or - is it somehow OK that we are suddenly using Nancy Pulltheotheronelosi and Crazy Bernie Sanders to make the case for the current situation?

People need to grow up and find a principle - and principles are HARD.

Otherwise? It’s just giving up yourself, giving up your reason, and just lining up behind whatever banner is most convenient.

Count me out.

You should at least have the decency - if you think Crazy Redistribution Bernie and windsock Nancy were right - to admit “Golly... I should have been voting DIM all this time until now!”