Billionaires -- Including Elon Musk -- Speak Out Against Trump's Tariffs: 'Huge Policy Mistake'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : More than 50 billionaires expressed support for Trump and billionaires funneled millions into his campaign, even as the now-president made sweeping tariffs a signature plank of his platform.
51% : Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has also said Trump will negotiate with other countries -- likely starting with Japan -- but has suggested those negotiations may take a while, telling Fox Business on Monday that all the countries approaching the Trump administration about making deals means "it's going to be a busy April, May, maybe into June."
51% : Trump announced his sweeping tariff policy during a "Liberation Day" event Wednesday, levying tariffs of 10% and up on imports from nearly all foreign countries -- even uninhabited ones.
50% : Musk's brother Kimbal Musk called Trump "the most high tax American President in generations" on Monday.
49% : " Trump has suggested he's open to negotiating with other countries on their tariffs, saying Monday that discussions with other countries would begin "immediately" and telling reporters he's open to reaching "fair deals" with other countries that put "America first."
48% : "Through his tariff strategy, Trump has implemented a structural, permanent tax on the American consumer," the Tesla shareholder said on X. Trump has dug his heels in on his tariffs and repeatedly doubled down in support of them, even as they've spurred chaos in the markets.
43% : The tariffs fulfill a longtime promise by the president to impose sweeping tariffs in order to restore manufacturing to the U.S. and punish other countries for purportedly unfair trade practices, which Trump has pushed despite economists long warning that doing so would raise prices for U.S. consumers and harm the economy.
40% : "The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO," Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday morning regarding tariffs.
13% : The White House denied reports Monday suggesting the administration was considering a 90-day pause, however, decrying the rumor as "fake news," and Trump said Monday he's "not looking at" pausing the tariffs unilaterally.

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