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Republican and Democratic U.S. Senators react to the impacts of President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs which are causing financial markets to nosedive.
Bloomberg L.P. |
Trump announced the steepest American tariffs in more than a century, with a 10% tariff on all exporters to the US and even higher duties on some 60 nations.
HuffPost |
“In the long run, we’re all dead,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill for “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Wednesday.

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