‘I’m Worried About the Tariffs’: Republican Senator Makes Surprisingly Blunt Confession About Trump Policy
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) confessed on Thursday that he is “worried” about President Donald Trump’s new tariffs against Canada and other countries.
After Fox Business host and former Trump administration official Larry Kudlow asked Kennedy whether he was “satisfied” with Trump’s economic policies, the senator replied:
I think President Trump on economics and otherwise is doing very well, but you remember the old saying, the danger of rising high is that the air gets thin. I’m worried about the tariffs. I’m not saying that tariffs are going to cause inflation. President Trump did them in his first term and they didn’t. I’m saying that we just don’t know and we’re in very obscure territory. We’re in uncharted waters. I think if the tariffs do start to cause inflation, I think the president will back away from them.
Kennedy went on to quote a hadith of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, telling Kudlow, “I’m not saying that I don’t trust President Trump, but you know, there’s another saying: trust in God but tie up your camel. I mean, if this stuff, if this starts causing inflation, we’re going have to recalibrate.”
He concluded, “I’m telling you, I’m not saying the border isn’t important, and Ukraine, and the Middle East, and culture wars, and the Academy Awards and Super Bowl– all those things are important, but the single most important thing, the things that moms and dads worry about when they lie down and sleep at night in camp, and the thing they expect the president to fix is high prices.”
The Trump administration imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian goods this week, as well as an additional 10% tariff on China as part of its new strategy to curb the amount of fentanyl being imported into the country.
Trump also placed a 25% tariff on Mexico, before reversing course and pausing the tariffs for a month on Thursday “out of respect” for his “very good” relationship with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
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