In the face of hostile Democrat questioning, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, a key Trump administration leader on tariff policy, voiced awareness of the volatile stock market while steadfastly arguing that it’s time to abandon the Wall Street-favored status quo.
Democrats on the Senate Committee on Finance pressed Greer during a Tuesday hearing on the tariffs, frequently asking him about the drop people have seen in their 401(k) retirement funds, which are tied to the stock market.
“I know everyone’s concerned about Wall Street,” Greer testified. “I’m just concerned about Main Street.”
The U.S. started 2025 with a $130.7 billion trade deficit in January, largely because many of our trading partners have high tariffs on U.S. goods or restrictive policies that make it tough to
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