by Steve Watson at Modernity
In 2005, Chuck Schumer passionately advocated for a 27.5 percent tariff on China, calling their trade policies unfair and saying it had to end.
He was saying the exact same thing Trump is saying now, but ultimately the Democrats under Obama and Biden did nothing about it.
Schumer urged that such a large tariff on Chinese goods “says to the Chinese that their unfair trade policies have got to end. The Chinese have enjoyed a huge trade surplus with the U.S. Every year it gets larger and larger.”
Archive footage of Schumer passionately advocating for tariffs on China, calling their trade policies "unfair" & saying it had to end. He'd joined forces with Lindsey Graham to introduce a 'China Free Trade Bill' in 2005. Now Trump is actually doing this, it's bad. What changed? pic.twitter.com/JT9vsGbXdl
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Schumer had joined forces with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham to introduce a ‘China Free Trade Bill’
The rest of what Schumer said:…
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