The United States Chamber of Commerce is attacking President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs while lobbying lawmakers to negotiate more free trade deals despite the economic devastation that such deals have delivered to the nation’s working- and middle-classes.
This week, Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on foreign imports — a move that ends the decades-long free trade consensus in Washington, DC, that cost Americans millions of manufacturing jobs while hollowing out working- and middle-class communities.
“Foreign nations will finally be asked to pay for the privilege of access to our market — the biggest market in the world,” Trump said in the Rose Garden.
In response, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents the largest multinational corporations in the country, attacked the tariffs and published a statement with free
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