«I am not for turning our backs on American workers and consumers,» he writes.
GOP Sen. Cory Gardner is raising the alarm about President Donald Trump’s tariffthreat just three days before the president’s proposed new penalties against Mexican imports take effect.
The Colorado Republican distributed a letter to his 100 colleagues on Friday afternoon warning that “current and proposed tariffs would negate all the economic benefits of tax reform” as Trump prepares to slap a new 5 percent tariff on Mexican goods that could increase to as much as 25 percent. The president says those levies will go into effect on Monday without border reforms from Mexico aimed at stopping illegal immigration to the United States.
Facing a tough reelection campaign in a blue state next year, Gardner says that the new tariffs will “take money” away from workers and that “hardworking Americans are unlikely to overlook the hit to their pocket books.
