Senior trade adviser Peter Navarro defended President Donald Trump’s tariff policies Wednesday on Newsmax, arguing that critics focus on the wrong concerns instead of addressing the impact of unfair trade practices on American jobs.
“What’s the first thing they [say]? … ‘Well, tariffs cause inflation.’ Well, where have they been for the last 20 years? Not asking the question, How many jobs, how many hundreds of thousands of jobs, how many millions of manufacturing jobs have we lost? How many factories have we lost? How much tax revenue have we lost?” he queried.
Navarro appeared on “Finnerty,” pushing back against criticisms of Trump tariffs and questioning why detractors fail to examine the broader consequences of U.S. trade policy.
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