“Trump Is Backing Down Again”: Hakeem Jeffries Mocks Tariff Flip Flop
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
The New Republic
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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:29.6 | This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm your host, Greg Sargent. |
| 1:00.4 | President Donald Trump's tariff chaos has gone off the rails yet again. |
| 1:05.4 | He just announced the temporary pause in the tariffs that isn't much of a pause at all. |
| 1:13.0 | For the next 90 days, the reciprocal tariffs will come down, but a universal 10% tariff will remain, and he's hiking tariffs on China into the stratosphere. Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson just executed |
| 1:19.2 | a new maneuver designed to prevent the House from voting on whether to rein in Trump's |
| 1:24.3 | assertion of unilateral authority to impose the tariffs, which is a clear |
| 1:28.7 | abuse of power. This, plus the House GOP, gearing up to cut Medicaid by hundreds of billions of |
| 1:35.1 | dollars, gives Democrats clear openings to inflict major political pain on Trump and Republicans. |
| 1:42.1 | Will Democrats capitalize? Today we're talking about all of this with |
| 1:46.2 | Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. Leader Jeffries, |
| 1:50.9 | thank you so much for coming on with us. Great to be with you. So we just learned that Trump has |
| 1:56.2 | changed his tariff policies once again. He's sort of pausing his tariffs, but apparently keeping in place |
| 2:02.3 | 10% reciprocal tariffs on all countries while hiking tariffs even higher on China. Your reaction |
| 2:08.3 | leader, Jeffries? Well, two things are occurring here. One, Donald Trump continues to crash the |
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