Senate Democrat on Trump pause: 'Chaos is still up ... and it's still a 10-percent tariff' [View all]

Source: The Hill

04/10/25 2:03 PM ET


Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said early Thursday that “chaos” and “confusion” were still high one day after President Trump implemented a 90-day pause on his administration’s “reciprocal” tariffs.

“I look at what happened yesterday, and yes, there was euphoria that he made some change. But in the cold reality of today, chaos is still up, confusion is up, and it’s still a 10-percent tariff,” Klobuchar said on MSNBC.

The Minnesota lawmaker said Americans are looking at their 401(k) plans and “they know where grocery prices are up, they know that this Trump tariff tax is still a huge problem for them in their everyday lives.”

The Trump administration’s 10-percent baseline tariffs remain on nearly all foreign trading partners, while tariffs on imports from China, the world’s second-largest economy, stand at 145 percent.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5242960-trump-tariff-pause-chaos/