Posted on 05/20/2025 3:28:15 PM PDT by T Ruth
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) was swift to applaud President Donald Trump's ongoing tariff strategy as markets show improvements in inflation, as well as food and car prices.
While Trump himself has admitted potential supply shortages and higher prices due to his tariff policy, he and his supporters continue to downplay the market hits as inevitable growing pains for reorienting the nation's domestic production.
Trump has paused some tariffs and issued executive orders exempting certain car parts for automakers, while many continue to criticize the policies as harmful to the economy.
Earlier this month, the Commerce Department announced that the Nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) registered at -0.3% for the first quarter of the year. The announcement preceded a marked dip in the markets, leading to Trump critics to cry impending doom.
Recently, it was announced that inflation had reached its lowest point in four years, which brought praise from Trump supporters and crickets from detractors. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also recently announced lower prices for items such as eggs, clothing, and cars.
On Thursday, Tuberville told reporters that the improved economic numbers should prove that Trump knows what he's doing and critics should butt out.
… [President Trump] understands our tax system, where our taxpayers of this country cannot continue to send up $4.9 trillion a year and us spend $7 trillion. The debt is going to overrun us. He knows more about economics than all these Democrats put together, because if they had an idea, we would not be in this shape. What they've been doing is definitely wrong, so we got to pay down our debt. How do we do that? We do it with tariffs. We can't do it with taxes. He wants to drop taxes."
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Excellent!
We need all the Republicans onboard.
I love how he is listed as (R-AUburn) as opposed to (R-Alabama).
Now each half of the State is represented.
Roll Tide.
When I was a yute in the 60s, our B’ham ‘burb had a plethora of 2 color sets displayed on most properties.
It was fun.
Still waiting for gas prices to drop here in Central Texas. If anything, they’ve been worse than the last few months of Biden. Starting to see stickers on the gas pumps with “I Did That!’, only this time with Trump’s picture on the stickers.
President Trump’s tariff policy is a ‘long ball’ play, and there’s still quite a bit of time on the clock. The anti-U.S. forces spent the last fifty years shifting jobs and economic growth to China and India and parts unknown, and bringing the whole thing back is gonna take more than a couple of news cycles in 2025.
And when manufacturing does get back here, it is gonna look a whole helluva lot different than it looked as it was leaving.
So. Buckle up and buckle down. The work has just started.
What do you see per gallon where you are?
Near $3/gal for regular, about what it was in October 2024.
No help for gas prices in Kalifornia, with Gov. Nuisance closing refineries. Still near $5.00/gallon for regular.
This won’t please Karkov or the WSJ editorial writers.
BTTT
~3.50 in Phoenix area
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