Sen. Murphy on Tariffs: Trump Gets Really Excited When People Have to Come to Him, ‘Petition the King’ for Relief

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MURPHY: "Yeah. Listen, I mean, that’s the case. I’ve been making to my. Colleagues here. I mean, the shape. And the design. Of these tariffs are confounding economists. Who can’t figure. Out. How this works. It looks like an. Absolute mess in which you’re not going to create any real domestic manufacturing boom. And all that’s going to happen is a whole bunch of American businesses and American consumers get screwed. I argue. That it’s. It’s not designed as economic policy. It’s designed. As political policy. Because, you know, Donald Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king. For relief. That’s what he’s doing with law firms. That’s what he’s doing with universities. And I think that maybe what he’s doing with American businesses, it’s true, he said. These are permanent. He said, I’m going to cut a deal. But it stands. To reason that what’s going to happen here is every company and every industry is going to have to come to Donald Trump. They’re going to make their case for sanctions relief, and in return, he’s going to tell them the list of things they have. To. Do for. Him by his crypto coin, tell their employees they can’t work for the opposition. This is, in. Fact. Why the founding fathers put the taxation power, as. Well as the. Spending power in the hands of Congress. We outsourced it to the president. And yes, it is completely within our power to grab it back. Hopefully Republicans, as they see this recession coming, may think twice and join with us."