Trump’s America First Trade Revolution Is a Win for Working Families 

President Donald Trump is ending outdated trade policies that harm hard-working Americans.  

Naturally, globalist elites are spitting mad that the United States is finally putting the interests of American workers, families, and communities over the pocketbooks of self-anointed “citizens of the world.” 

Here are four ways Trump’s trade policies are restoring respect for America: 

1) Demanding fairness and reciprocity: For decades, friends and foes have taken advantage of American generosity, including military and other aid, while at the same time erecting barriers to competition from goods produced by American workers. No longer.  

‘Even our closest allies still impose tariffs, quotas, labeling restrictions, foreign ownership limits, and bureaucratic red tape that keep American products and companies out of many markets.  

Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are a tool of statecraft that can level the playing field. If foreign nations want to avoid these tariffs, then they must remove their trade barriers. It’s really that simple. 

2) Creating respect for our borders: Foreign nations have not only dumped artificially cheap products into the United States, but they have also flooded our shores with fentanyl, gang members, and illegal immigrants.  

The American people spoke loud and clear last November: fixing these problems is an urgent priority.  

Trump is requiring foreign countries to take their criminals back, stop facilitating drug smuggling and human trafficking, and respect our borders—otherwise, they face the consequences of stiff tariffs. As the Colombia President Gustavo Petro found out when he tried to refuse the repatriation of a planeload of illegal immigrants, soft power is not always so soft. 

3) Keeping friends close and enemies far: Depending on foreign adversaries for key minerals, energy, or military inputs and technology has put vital American interests at the mercy of those who seek to defeat us, particularly China and the Chinese Communist Party. That is not peace through strength: it is economic appeasement at the cost of everyday Americans. 

Globalists promised that unilateral free trade with China would make them peaceful and democratic. Instead, we got military buildups, currency and market manipulation, rampant IP theft, industrial espionage, forced technology transfers, TikTok surveillance, slave labor and COVID-19.  

The CCP has plundered America’s economy and threatened the livelihood of our workers and our military-industrial base.  

Trump’s across-the-board tariffs on Chinese goods will decouple our economy from China and presents our allies with a clear choice: develop partnerships with the United States and get the many benefits that come, or side with China and face U.S. tariffs. 

4) Putting American families and workers first, always: Tragically, trade policies over the last several decades coincided with middling economic growth, stagnating middle-class wages, a mass exiting of the labor force by young people, the breakup of the American family, and decaying communities. No longer.  

Trump’s trade policies are designed to arrest American decline that has accelerated because of foreign abuses. He promises to use new tariff revenues to help pay for equivalent tax cuts for American families and businesses.  

Together, with dismantling the Deep State, slashing regulatory burdens, and extending Trump’s pro-growth tax cuts, American industry and manufacturing will be unleashed to make America self-sufficient, restore wage growth and economic dynamism, and enable the prosperity required for families to flourish in peace and stability once again. 

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