Trump Tariffs Threaten to Upend Global Economic Order

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, said that "it would be nice if Donald Trump could start focusing on getting the prices down instead of making them go up.
54% : "If the president can with the stroke of a pen and for no good reason completely upend a North American supply chain that has been in place for more than 30 years, why would a foreign government be willing to expend all the political capital needed to enter into a trade agreement?" said Scott Lincicome, the vice president for economics and trade at the Cato Institute, which supports free trade.
47% : Mr. Trump is using a rarely deployed national security law, known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, to legally justify imposing tariffs on countries that have trade agreements with the United States.
47% : Big lobbying groups urged the Trump administration to consider other ways to address border and fentanyl concerns and warned that tariffs would only harm American workers and businesses.
17% : During his first term, Mr. Trump pushed for a rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which he had criticized as the "worst" trade deal ever, and ultimately signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

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