Toomey: 'Absolutely painful' China tariffs may be 'worth the price'

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Sen. Pat Toomey defended Trump amid the administration’s trade war with China, arguing that an eventual agreement with Beijing may be “worth the price” of the “absolutely painful” tariffs hammering American farmers.

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Sen. Pat Toomey on Sunday defended President Donald Trump amid the administration’s trade war with China, arguing that an eventual agreement with Beijing may be “worth the price” of the “absolutely painful” tariffs hammering American farmers.

“I actually think the president is right to challenge China,” the Pennsylvania Republican told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” adding that he classifies the Asian power “in a distinct category separate from” other U.S. competitors and adversaries.“China is the world’s second biggest economy. It’s a revisionist power. It’s now, for the first time, attempting to be able to project force. It’s intimidating neighbors. It’s disrupting American institutions.

Tariffs are designed to get another country to change its approach to trade, but they also have an effect on consumers, raising prices on the imported goods they purchase.Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. “This agreement, if we reach one, won't solve all of those problems, and the tariffs are absolutely painful and dislocating,” he said. “But if, in the end, we end up with an agreement that gives us a meaningful reform of China’s most egregious behavior, we might look back and say, 'This was worth the price that we’re paying.'”

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'Sen. Pat Toomey defended Trump.' shocker

Another Russian sell-out

What price is he paying?

Oh course, and Senator Toomey is feeling so much of that pain. Give me a break!

I wonder if the tariffs have had any effect on his paycheck? No, I thought so.

There is no eventual agreement. China will keep hitting back. China wants US to treat them as co-equal - did you hear what they told SecPompeo over this weekend?

As long as the wealthy don’t have to suffer, right Pat ?

Sen Pat Toomey, under the management of the Koch brothers, . . .

Very true. If we need to blame someone, blame all the past presidents who were aware of the out of balance trade deals that cost us billions every year but were too timid to do anything about it. And then thank Trump for his knowledge and courage in doing the hard work here.

Farmers don't think so

How will it be worth it SenToomey? Give some figures of when it will worth the price and what guarantee they EVER will have that market back?

trumponomics: turning hardworking Americans into welfare queens

It’s worth the price since you’re not paying the price. Trump is incompetent and you’re complicit

Tell that to farmers that lost their farms. Whose farm are you going to rescue before this deal happens?

SenToomey You are defending Trump and his tariffs. 'worth the price' hammering American Farmers? This will be the second year in a row that farmers are getting bailed out. Yet you guys oppose socialism? Maybe alerting farmers that this would happen? The PEOPLE are paying the TAX

When Deng launched China's export-led economy in 1979, the US had 20 million manufacturing jobs. Today it has 12 million.

THIS IS A PATRIOT OF AMERICA

Bullshit!!

Lmao Republicans have no spine

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