1) 1996 Nancy Pelosi encourages all of Congress to back reciprocal tariffs
Today, members of Congress will be asked to set down a marker: How far does China have to go? How much more repression, how big a trade deficit and loss of jobs for the American worker, and how much more dangerous proliferation has to exist before members of this House of Representatives will say, 'I will not endorse the status quo?'" Pelosi said:
Pelosi noted that the job loss as a result of U.S. free trade with China was a massive "job loser," as she called it:Pelosi also called out members of Congress for supporting MFN status for China.
"And if there is one message that I want our colleagues to understand today and our constituents is that on this day your member of Congress could have drawn the line to say to the president of the United States do something about this U.S.-China trade relationship that is a job loser for the United States," Pelosi said.
"And this brings us to the point that others have said, 'Well we can't isolate China.' Do you think for one minute that with 10 million jobs at least and $35 billion and over $40 billion this year in a trade surplus — all those billions of dollars in surplus — that the Chinese are going to walk away?" Pelosi continued. "Where are they going to take 35 to 40 percent of their exports? Who's going to buy them? This is what sustains the regime — the funding and the jobs. They can't have those people out of work. They have to be worth exporting to the United States."
2) 2008 Bernie Sanders wants tariffs, says jobs are going overseas
clip from 2008 featured the lawmaker slamming the U.S. government on the Senate floor for not implementing tariffs and other protectionist policies to keep American jobs from going overseas.
"Further, what they have said is that we need to not worry about manufacturing in America because what we should establish is a policy of unfettered free trade. We don't need tariffs," he sarcastically said.
3) 2018 Barack Obama calls for reciprocal tariffs
4) 1988 Donald Trump says foreign countries must pay tariff....At the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1988, the host and producer, Oprah questioned now US President Donald Trump as to what he "would do differently" in light of his criticism of the US foreign policy. His almost futuristic remark has made the video resurface on social media as Trump was seen wanting to make his "allies pay their fare share" calling the United States of America a "debtor nation".
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