The Daily Blast: “Trump Is Backing Down Again”: Hakeem Jeffries Mocks Tariff Flip Flop

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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President Donald Trump’s tariff chaos continues. He just announced a big reversal: For 90 days, the reciprocal tariffs will come down, but a universal 10 percent tariff will remain, and he’s hiking tariffs on China into the stratosphere. Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson just moved to prevent the House from voting on whether to rein in Trump’s assertion of unilateral authority to impose the tariffs—a clear abuse of power. This, plus the House GOP gearing up to cut Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars, gives Democrats major political openings. Will they capitalize? We talked to Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, who explains what Trump’s reversal says about his political weakness, why Democrats can seriously contest red-leaning districts next year, and how the party should prosecute the case against Trump’s dictatorial abuses of power. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.3	President Donald Trump's tariff chaos has gone off the rails yet again.
1:30.8	He just announced the temporary pause in the tariffs that isn't much of a pause at all.
1:35.9	For the next 90 days, the reciprocal tariffs will come down,
1:39.5	but a universal 10% tariff will remain,
1:42.2	and he's hiking tariffs on China into the stratosphere.
1:46.4	Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson just executed a new maneuver designed to prevent the House
1:51.7	from voting on whether to rein in Trump's assertion of unilateral authority to impose the
1:57.0	tariffs, which is a clear abuse of power. This, plus the House GOP, gearing up to cut Medicaid
2:03.7	by hundreds of billions of dollars, gives Democrats clear openings to inflict major
2:09.1	political pain on Trump and Republicans. Will Democrats capitalize? Today we're talking about
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