Live updates: New tariffs spark global outcry; Senate GOP advances Trump agenda

BY THE HILL STAFF

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Vulnerable House Republicans are on defense amid the fallout from President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, which have stoked uncertainty about the economy.

Republican Senators also made strides towards advancing a budget reconciliation package this week that would include expanding the leader’s 2017 tax cuts and, bolstering border security and increased defense spending.

Live updates below.

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Trump economic adviser defends tariffs: Not ‘big effect’ on US consumer

BY RACHEL SCULLY

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett defended President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs that have stoked concerns about the United States economy.

During a Sunday interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Hassett said he doesn’t believe there will be a “big effect on the consumer in the U.S.,” noting that over 50 countries are also “coming to the table” to negotiate.

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Rollins dodges questions on whether Trump tariffs are ‘here to stay’: ‘A lot to be determined’ 

BY SARAH FORTINSKY

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins repeatedly on Sunday sidestepped questions about whether President Trump’s tariffs are “here to stay,” as the president has suggested, or whether the United States is open to negotiating with other countries.

In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rollins defended Trump’s tariff strategy broadly when CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked how long she expects “this tariff chaos is going to be going on? 30 days? 60 days? 90 days?”

Rollins said Trump’s tariffs marked the beginning of a “new American order, the new American economic plan,” which has only generated two days of economic data.

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Walz says Trump ‘not wrong’ that manufacturing has been ‘gutted’ but tariffs ‘not the solution’ 

BY SARAH FORTINSKY

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said on Sunday that President Trump is “not wrong” in identifying the gutting of the manufacturing industry as an issue, but said the president is wrong about tariffs as the solution.

“Here’s the thing that the Democrats have to figure out. Donald Trump’s language around this, he’s not wrong that we have had manufacturing gutted. He’s not wrong that we saw an outshoring. People of my generation were told there aren’t going to be any manufacturing jobs, so you need to go to college and rack up student loan debt,” Walz said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“The problem is, Donald Trump’s solution to this is not the solution,” Walz added.

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Booker slams Trump after speech: Never seen an administration ‘do something so monumentally wrong’

BY RACHEL SCULLY

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) slammed the Trump administration, saying he has never seen an administration “do something so monumentally wrong and that so staggeringly hurts American people.”

During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Booker, who last week gave a record-breaking 25-hour speech aimed at combating Trump’s moves in the White House, was asked about National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett’s defense of the president’s sweeping global tariffs.

Booker heavily criticized the tariffs and “the chaos he has unleashed on America.”

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