What Grassley Says Trump Really Believes on Trade

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told Politico that President Trump doesn’t really like tariffs.

Said Grassley: “He believes in tariffs as a tool to get a negotiation as opposed to being an end in themselves. Then he hasn’t changed anything. If he has used tariffs because he believes they’re good, and I know he says that, but I don’t believe he actually believes that. I don’t see how he could believe it.”

He added: “He hasn’t changed the Republican Party. We’re still a party of free trade … I surely hope that he has learned from history that lower tariffs are good.”