A crisis within the Republican Party due to Trump’s tariff policies
This week, Republicans received a series of warnings about President Donald Trump’s trade policies, especially the tariffs he imposes on the United States’ major trading partners, in light of indications that these policies have become an electoral burden on the party.
The results of the recent local elections in states such as Virginia and New Jersey showed a clear tendency of voters towards the Democrats, who focused in their campaigns on holding Trump and his party responsible for the rise in the prices of basic commodities, from coffee and cars to aluminum cans – according to what was published. Politico magazine today, Saturday.
Even Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices expressed doubts this week about the legality of his repeated decisions to raise tariffs unilaterally, raising the possibility that the court will limit his powers in this area.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis, who voted against imposing 50% tariffs on Brazil last summer, said that “Trump will continue to push the limits to their maximum unless the court issues an order.” “restricts it,” referring to the significant expansion in the use of executive authority to impose fees.
Economists and traditional Republicans who support the free market believe that these fees harm the American economy in the long run and weaken the party’s position in the midterm elections, although few of them expect the administration to change course.
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