Countries wishing the United States to lower President Donald Trump’s tariffs against them must first agree to lower their own tariffs, Sen. James Lankford told Newsmax on Thursday.
“[Trump] laid it out and said ‘I’m going to do a 10% tariff on everybody across the entire world,'” the Oklahoma Republican told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “If it’s higher than 10%, it’s higher than 10% for a reason, because you put high tariffs on us.”
Lankford called the Trump strategy “interesting.”
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