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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) slammed President Trump's announcement Thursday that he was considering imposing $100 billion in tariffs on China amid the ongoing trade dispute between Washington and Beijing, calling it nuts and dumb.
"Hopefully the President is just blowing off steam again but, if he's even half-serious, this is nuts. China is guilty of many things, but the President has no actual plan to win right now," Sasse said in a statement.
"He's threatening to light American agriculture on fire. Let's absolutely take on Chinese bad behavior, but with a plan that punishes them instead of us. This is the dumbest possible way to do this," he continued.
Sasse tweeted the statement, breaking his three-month silence on Twitter.
Link to tweet
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-senator-on-tariff-threat-hopefully-trump-is-blowing-off-steam-because-this-is-nuts/ar-AAvx58m?li=BBnb7Kz
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)person was drummed out of politics.
Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)Besides the obvious.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Hey Sasse, know any senators who might do something about it?
Sampan
(121 posts)So far, nothing else has worked.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Some guy named Paul McHenry:
I dont expect you to have an answer for this. Because you clearly dont have a spine to stand up to him. But its neat that you talk like youll do something.
A couple of people try to stick up for Sasse and his unconventional ways (for a Republican), but McHenry is having none of it.