The tariffs that President Donald Trump is imposing on goods brought into the United States from abroad are a tax that will raise the cost for Americans buying these products, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told MSNBC’s “11th Hour.”
Paul emphasized that tariffs are “without question” a “tax,” adding that “it’s something that will elevate the prices of things that you tariff. So if you put a 50% tariff on steel and aluminum, the people who buy steel and aluminum inevitably are going to pay more.”
The senator bemoaned that there is not enough support in Congress to limit the authority of Trump to make policy on tariffs.
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