Discussing the Trump administrations proposal for $12 billion in aid to American farmers, Toomey said, “Its terrible. I mean we are compounding government errors. It was a failed policy in the first place in the form of these unnecessary tariffs that are doing the damage and now we are going to offset that by forcing taxpayers to send a check to these farmers I just cant agree with this. And the pity of this is the economy is doing so well the response to our tax reform to the deregulation that we and the president have pursued jointly has been phenomenally successful. I’m afraid it could really be jeopardized by this downward spiral on trade.”
When asked if tariffs could become an issue in the midterms, Toomey said, “It is entirely possible.”
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