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Mike Pence, former US vice president, recently said that he was worried about the current US administration's large-scale tariff increase measures, calling this practice "misjudged".
△ Trump and Pence
Pence served as vice president during Trump's first term. In an interview with The Hill on September 9, he said that although the US government has withdrawn some of the harshest tariff measures imposed on allies, its aggressive tariff policy may still pose potential risks for the Republican Party's midterm election.
Pence is another important Republican figure to criticize the tariff policy. Previously, the tariff policy had already been criticized by several Republican members of Congress.
Ted Cruz, a Republican senator of Texas, said in an interview with Fox News that tariffs are essentially taxes on consumers, and he does not approve of significantly increasing taxes on American consumers. In his podcast program, Cruz said that if the tariff policy is implemented for a long time, it may push up inflation, damage job growth, and even lead to a US economic recession.
Rand Paul, a Republican senator of Kentucky, criticized the federal government's imposition of tariffs on the grounds that the trade deficit constitutes a "national emergency" when speaking in the Senate. He emphasized that Congress must reclaim its constitutional authority to regulate tariffs and foreign trade.
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