WASHINGTON – Sen. Mitch McConnell released a statement Tuesday as the Senate prepared to consider resolutions aimed at ending national emergency tariff authorities.
McConnell said:
“I’m approaching this week’s votes on tariffs the same way I did earlier this year, and the same way I have my entire career.”
He criticized what he called “protectionists in Washington,” arguing they falsely claim recent trade policies have been successful.
“New trade barriers imposed this year have made it harder to sustain the supply chains that let thousands of Kentuckians build cars and appliances in the Commonwealth,” McConnell said. “Retaliatory tariffs on American products have turned agricultural income upside down for many of Kentucky’s nearly 70,000 family farms. Bourbon has been caught in the crossfire from Day One. And consumers are paying higher prices across the board as the true costs of trade barriers fall inevitably on them.”
He added that while tariff supporters celebrate increased revenue, they ignore the damage caused to American producers.
“Protectionists eagerly celebrate the revenue from tariff duties. But they don’t talk nearly as much about how much of that revenue they’ll spend protecting American growers and producers from the avoidable harm of their policies,” McConnell said.
The senator emphasized that tariffs drive up costs for both businesses and consumers.
“Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive,” he said. “The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule. And no cross-eyed reading of Reagan will reveal otherwise.”
McConnell concluded by saying he will vote in favor of resolutions to end emergency tariff authorities this week.
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