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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka praised President Donald Trump on Thursday for enacting steel and aluminum tariffs, saying they were “good for the country” and good for the industry.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) reacted to President Trump’s tariff announcement by stating, “There are a lot of people that are going to lose their jobs because of the president’s essential, you know, acting

Paul Ryan led a pack of senior Republican lawmakers in an attack Thursday on the tariff policies of Donald Trump.

The vast majority of Americans support President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda on foreign trade, wherein the populist president is in the process of renegotiating multinational trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

As President Trump made history signing into law his tariffs on steel and aluminum to protect American workers and U.S. industries, GOP megadonor Charles Koch called on “corporate leaders” to “reject” the decision.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) stated that he opposes a general tariff, which “would actually harm allies, harm American consumers, by the way, harm American workers that use steel in production,” and that no

In a surprising turn of events, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken to social media to make a case for President Trumps recently proposed tariffs.

Pro-mass immigration GOP megadonor billionaires the Koch brothers are now committed to working against President Trump’s two leading populist issues: immigration and trade.

“There are potential carve-outs for Mexico and Canada based on national security,” the White House said on Wednesday.

Officials with influence on trade policy inside the White House believe that imposing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico in the near term, only to remove them within months if a new Nata deal is reached, would be unnecessarily disruptive.

United States Steel announced Wednesday morning that it would call back 500 employees to work at its Granite City, Illinois, plant after President Trump announced that the U.S. would impose tariffs on foreign steel.

As White House economic adviser Gary Cohn resigns from the White House, Breitbart News looks back on six times that the economic globalist attempted to derail President Trump’s “America First” agenda.

The “Trumpocrats,” the group of working and middle-class Democrat voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 presidential election, have won a victory, as their nemesis in the White House, Gary Cohn has resigned.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Chief Legal Analyst and New Yorker Staff Writer Jeffrey Toobin reacted to the departure of Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn by stating Cohn “managed to stomach the racism, what he couldn’t take

Former George W. Bush official Karl Rove and House Speaker Paul Ryan are begging President Trump’s administration to water-down proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Tariffs on aluminum and steel imports are key to revitalizing domestic manufacturing industries, said Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Cohn is attempting to organize a “summit” of business leaders opposed to the tariffs, according to a person familiar with the matter.

On Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated that President Trump’s announced tariffs “concern” him but he does “support the president and the administration being vigorous trying to open foreign markets.” Cruz said the tariffs “did not surprise me,

Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, discussed America’s aluminum and steel industries in an interview Monday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak. Destruction of America’s aluminum and steel industries via Chinese commodity dumping would leave America “vulnerable to blackmail on key component parts” needed for the U.S. to have “a modern industrial economy,” Manning said.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) argued against President Trump’s tariff proposal and stated, “the United States will lose in a trade war.” Rand said, “[A] tariff is a tax, and typically

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” network senior political analyst Brit Hume said that although he was skeptical of President Donald Trump’s effort to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, he noted that it was something Trump had

The reality is that free trade is almost a guaranteed election loser (and I say this as a long-standing free trader who is personally opposed to tariffs in most circumstances, including these).

“Our time is running very short,” Lighthizer said Monday during a press conference at the end of the seventh round of negotiations in Mexico City.

Trump put the proposed tariffs of ten percent on aluminum and 25 percent on steel in the context of NAFTA, working with Mexico and Canada to renegotiate the free trade deal.

“We are extremely worried about the consequences of a trade war and are urging the WH to not advance with this plan,” Ryan said according to Politico’s Rachael Bade. “The new tax reform law has boosted the economy and we certainly don’t want to jeopardize those gains.”

“NAFTA, which is under renegotiation right now, has been a bad deal for U.S.A.,” Trump wrote. “Massive relocation of companies & jobs. Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum will only come off if new & fair NAFTA agreement is signed.”

Decades of “free trade absolutism” by America’s elites, “where we unilaterally disarm while our opponent commits economic warfare against us,” have undermined American national security, decimated the U.S. manufacturing base, and betrayed middle and working class Americans, said Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour during a opening monologue on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM. 

President Trump called his economic adviser Gary Cohn a “globalist” on the issue of trade in a White House fight over tariffs.

Prime Minister Theresa May has taken the bizarre step of coming out to bat for the EU against U.S. President Donald Trump, after the bloc threatened to trigger a damaging “trade war” by levying tariffs on several iconic American brands.

California expects to suffer from President Donald Trump’s looming tariffs on aluminum (10%) and steel (25%). That’s because the state prefers to import steel from Asia and Latin America rather buying it from U.S. factories.

Navarro decried the “hair on fire” reaction from cable news and the press, calling it the “biggest bunch of horse-puckey that you can imagine.”

Former Breitbart News Executive Chairman and White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon is warning of a “new axis” of powers that will confront “the Christian West.”

Republicans arguing against tariffs are engaging in revisionism. Both Reagan and Bush took actions to cut back on steel imports.

Goldman Sachs’ chief economist suggested that Trump’s tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum will lead to the United States leaving the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Exact details of new United States aluminum and steel tariffs remain unclear after White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Thursday that the percentages and final plan will be released next week.

The trade globalist wing of the White House has failed in its efforts to stop President Trump from following through on his promise to protect American industries and jobs by imposing tariffs on imported foreign products.