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Chapter 1: What happened during Jamieson Greer's testimony on Capitol Hill?
It did not go well for Donald Trump's top trade representative, Jamison Greer, who testified on Capitol Hill for two days under oath, the first day before the United States Senate, the second day before the House of Representatives. He spent a day and a half
justifying and making every excuse in the book for Donald Trump's tariffs against the world, the cockamamie formula, using deficits to calculate reciprocal tariffs, which weren't actually reciprocal tariffs, testifying under no circumstance ever. and I mean ever will there be a pause on any of these tariffs. We're all in. If there's 10% inflation, no pause. If millions of jobs get lost, no pause.
And then on day two of his testimony before the House of Representatives, you literally see him getting a text message or a Google alert on his phone, and he has this Oh, crap moment where he finds out that Donald Trump reversed course on every country other than China. And then Donald Trump essentially paused all of the tariffs against the world.
Precisely what Jameson Greer testified would never happen. And also because Jameson Greer's the top trade representative, this would be like the decision that he makes.
or should be involved in, and he was finding out that Donald Trump basically made a tweet or a social media post, and on that basis, the entire tariff policy shifted in a moment, an entire realignment of United States trade policy took place, and Jameson Greer, the trade representative, was finding out This is the chaos of the Trump regime.
So then naturally on day two, the Democrats pounced and they were asking Trade Representative Greer, you didn't know about that. You've just spent two days testifying. This would never happen. And now that's happening. Explain that to us.
And Jamison Greer's like, oh, well, I'm reading the Post and I think that this is actually really smart because there's no depth to the excuses and depravity that they won't justify when it comes to Donald Trump. So let's talk about what went down. So first, you have Democratic Senator Mark Warner. This is day one when Greer's before the Senate.
And Senator Mark Warner just goes off on Jamison Greer saying, Why the hell are you tariffing Australia, our ally, when there's a surplus that we have in trade with Australia? That makes no sense under your cockamamie Greek formula. Play this clip.
There is a trade. We already have a free trade agreement. We have a trade surplus. So getting the least bad, why did they get whacked in the first place?
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Chapter 2: Why did Jamieson Greer face criticism regarding tariffs?
Next, you have Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan, and she says to Jameson Greer, what if inflation was 10%? Would you still keep these tariffs on? Here, play this clip.
Sales tax is increasing prices for families. It's also causing huge losses in Americans' retirement savings. Ambassador Greer, would the administration reverse course if the president's tariffs led to 10% inflation?
Senator, the president is fixed in his purpose. This trade deficit and the offshoring and loss of manufacturing jobs is something that's persisted for too long, and it's dangerous.
I understand your justification for the policy, even though there are some very contradictory justifications coming out of the administration. But my question is, what's the inflation rate? where you guys would reverse course. 10% inflation that I just asked you about, that is higher inflation than we saw at the peak of the COVID economic crisis.
But you aren't gonna say here today that you would reverse course even if you created inflation as high as we had at the peak of the COVID economic crisis.
I think the most serious inflation we saw was during the Biden administration. When we did tariffs in the first term, inflation went down. It's not going to be a one-to-one. Inflation is about how much money you're putting into the supply.
Let's just be really clear that the Trump administration is here today to say that even if inflation hits Americans' pocketbooks at 10% because of these tariffs, then the Trump administration is still going to go charging ahead.
So, Ambassador, would the administration reverse course if the president's tariffs caused a 50 percent stock market crash, which would hurt Americans' retirement savings even more than they've been hurt in the last 10 days or so?
Senator, the fundamentals of the economy are so strong. We had 228,000 jobs last month. We have 9,000 additional manufacturing jobs from the month before.
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Chapter 3: How did the tariff policy shift suddenly during the hearings?
The United States has run trade deficits for 48 straight years, during which time the U.S. economy has grown by 255% in real terms. These decades of trade deficits have corresponded with increases in American wealth and household incomes that far exceed the progress in Canada, China, and the European Union.
Do you think that this growth in American wealth as a result associated with deficits is something that constitutes a national emergency?
The giant and massive persistent trade deficit that Biden left us with is an emergency. It's not like the small deficits from the 60s when we had auto workers here making production. We've offshored all this stuff. Mr. Daga, and we are really in an emergency situation, and we're not passing the buck.
We seem to have done much better than in the Gilded Age, which the president prefers. I would just say that on the eve of his inauguration, the president promised to bring prices drastically down, and there's nothing that you've said in your answers or non-answers.
me today that will give americans any assurance to believe anything other than that their prices will continue to soar and their savings will continue to shrink the president's lies continue to cause the american cost the american people dearly i yield back going back to democratic senator cortez mastro watch this be intellectually honest
Now, let me just ask this, because this is also true, and I so appreciate Senator Lankford asking this. Time matters. How long did it take to negotiate that agreement, the USMCA, that you were part of?
We did it at breakneck speed. We did it in about two years.
Two years. And now you're telling us you have nearly 50 countries coming to you, approaching you to enter in a negotiation, and you think that you can do that overnight? Yes. India, you're pretty superhuman here, if that's the case. So let's be realistic. That's all we're asking. Common sense.
Then you have Democratic Senator Cantwell. Here she is, Washington state senator. Play this clip.
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