Pence group lashes out at Trump tariffs ahead of ‘Liberation Day’ event: ‘Tax on American consumers’
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‘Fox&Friends’co-hostLawrenceJonesbreaksdownPresidentDonaldTrump’stariff‘LiberationDay’with‘TheBigMoneyShow’co-hostBrianBrenberg.
FormerVicePresidentMikePence’spolicyadvocacyorganizationcameoutagainstPresidentDonaldTrump’s“LiberationDay,”arguinghistariffplans“areessentiallyataxonAmericanconsumersandbusinesses.”
InapostonXonWednesday,alongwithalettertoCongress,thegroupAmericansAdvancingFreedom(AAF)statedthetariffs“areessentiallyataxonAmericanconsumersandbusinesses.”Thismarksoneoftherareoccasionswhenthegroup,foundedin2021basedontheprinciplesofTrump’sfirstterm,hasopposedhispolicies.
“Congresshasaconstitutionalresponsibilitytoreclaimitsauthorityovertaxation,”AAF’sgeneralcounselMarcWheatwroteintheletter.
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