EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) agrees with President Donald Trump on a portion of his tariff policy, a rare harmonization across the aisle as Democrats rail against the president’s wider agenda.
Baldwin, the third-term Democrat who narrowly secured reelection last November in Trump-won Wisconsin, is on board with the president’s executive order closing the so-called de minimis tariff loophole for China and Hong Kong that has long allowed cheap foreign goods to avoid import taxes.
“There is a whole lot of Donald Trump’s reckless trade policy that is wrong and will only jack up costs for working families,” Baldwin told the Washington Examiner. “But on this, President Trump and I agree.”
Closing the de minimis loophole has been among the few executive actions taken by Trump in his second
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