September 9, 2024
Grilled on Trump’s tariff plans, Vance won’t say whether consumers will pay more
Pressed on Sunday to say whether former President Trump’s proposed tariff hikes would lead to higher consumer prices, Republican vice-presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) demurred, declining to say if Trump’s first-term tariff increases had hurt Americans’ finances or if his proposed new duties would – and charging that “economists really disagree” on the inflationary effects of tariffs. Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press , Vance insisted a tariff “penalizes importers from bringing goods outside the country, into the country...
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