Political Quotes

“President Trump promised Americans during his campaign that, if elected, he would lower costs on day one, and Americans trusted him to do so. Yet all President Trump has done from day one of his Presidency until now has been to raise costs for our families and our businesses. One of the most outrageous examples of this is with his erratic blanket tariffs that he has imposed on our allies and trade partners, as you have heard from my colleague from Delaware talking about. But let me be clear. These tariffs for the American public are nothing but taxes. Tariffs are taxes. That is what the American people are seeing every single day, and many of them are seeing it first thing in the morning when they have their cup of coffee. This is an unacceptable burden to be putting on the American people, and the tools this administration is using to do so are clearly unconstitutional. They are actually being heard in the Supreme Court today. The good news is, Congress has the authority to do something about it. There is bipartisan, bicameral agreement that not only can we act, but we must. That is why I am here today to pass the bill that I wrote with Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. It is called the No Coffee Tax Act. It is a very simple bill. It would roll back President Trump's tax on our coffee.”