The goal of the policy, Trump said, was to coerce drug makers into building plants in the United States.
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Generic drugs will continue to be imported tariff-free until 1 August 2028, when a 100% tariff would be imposed “for a one year period of time, and 200% thereafter.”
I’ll be going to Dover for something that I feel is — it’s a great honor for me to do it.
They did slip something through in Jordan, and if we had other operators, you know, [it] would not [have] happened ... because we have the best equipment in the world.
We’ll be hitting that area, probably pretty soon, and there’s not a thing they can do about it.
You don’t know what the dialogue is behind the scenes, that they want to meet desperately to try and end it because they’re getting decimated.
Nobody knows, except the Iranians, the damage that we’ve done to them. We have done damage that will take them 20, 25 years to recover from.
I will tell you they want to desperately meet. And until they’re ready to meet in a meaningful way, we have no interest.
If these consequences didn't exist, then today we would be living in a world where a significant percentage of the energy supply in this region and 20% of the world's energy supply is being held hostage by a rogue regime.
When those commitments are not kept, which is what’s happened in this particular case, then there will be consequences. And that has to happen.
The United States remains open and willing to engage in positive negotiations and talks so long as the commitments that are made are kept.
If that is threatened, then I think the global economy is threatened, and the rules which have underpinned 150 years of international trade and commerce are also threatened, and that cannot be allowed to happen.
If we create a precedent in the Middle East where a nation-state can decide that they are going to control an international waterway and, if you don't pay them, blow up your ships, we have created a very dangerous precedent.
The problem we're having right now is they're not serious about talks. If they're serious, we're serious.
The amount of neglect, the amount of stale thinking and bureaucracy; it was staggering when we took over.
I mean the Biden administration ignored hypersonics. They just decided to pretend like that technology didn’t exist and we shouldn’t invest in it.
You won’t show any political courage to actually fund our department because you have Trump derangement syndrome and you won’t commit to anything meaningful. So, I put this on you, senator.
When will you show leadership and stand up to your fellow Democrats who won’t fund the troop, who play partisan politics while you don’t give us the money? You want to stand up here and talk about the troops?
You — you don’t have a strategy, you don’t have a long-term plan to actually win this war. Win the war! The men and women are going to be able to do it, but they need leadership. When will you show leadership?
Every dollar appropriated will be used to build the lethality of US military forces and reinforce peace through strength.
Without these funds, we face critical shortfalls that threaten our ability to also simply pay our service members, rapidly replenish equipment and munitions, and sustain vital operations without disruption.
It’s been a very badly treated place and country and we’re going to have it properly treated and treated with the respect it deserves.





