"Nobody wins a trade war and we're all hoping, as others have suggested here, that these tactics get us into a better position vis-a-vis China, which has been our worst and most unfair trading relationship for a very long time," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday during a press conference. "It's another one of the Trump lies when he says 'China pays for this.' American consumers are paying, American farmers are paying, American companies are paying and especially American workers are paying," Brown said. When asked by ABC News if Trump is telling the truth when he says China will bear the cost of the trade war, "He makes that up," Brown replied. "He seems to think that tariffs are the policy, and that undercuts American agriculture, it also hurts the supply chain and manufacturing." "I'm very concerned that the president has not understood that the tariffs need to be a short term tool to get to a long term policy," Brown said. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, by far one of the loudest voices in the Democratic Party in recent years to support strong actions against China, slammed Trump for botching his handling of the trade negotiations. And we'll handle it now," Trump said.ĭemocratic Sen. And it should have been handled a long time ago, and it wasn't. The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment."We're having a little squabble with China because we've been treated very unfairly for many, many decades - for, actually, a long time. In the video, the doctors also discounted the need for face masks amid the pandemic. Trump has regularly touted the drug and said he has used it himself. The US Food and Drug Administration last month revoked its emergency-use authorisation for hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, after several studies cast doubt on its effectiveness. The tweets shared by Trump were deleted as part of Twitter’s enforcement actions.įauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and has worked under six US presidents, said on Tuesday that he has “not been misleading the American public under any circumstances”. He won't be able to tweet, Like or retweet for 12 hours. has been suspended (or "temporarily locked out" in Twitter's description) for spreading coronavirus misinformation President Trump also retweeted a post late on Monday containing a link to the video and accusing Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, and Democrats of suppressing the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat the novel coronavirus. The video was also taken down by Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc-owned YouTube after racking up millions of views, for breaking their rules on COVID-19 misinformation. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Ex-PM Boris Johnson denies in inquiry he wanted to let COVID ‘rip’ list 2 of 4 Boris Johnson says UK underestimated COVID-19 threat list 3 of 4 Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for mRNA vaccines list 4 of 4 ‘Bugger!’: New Zealand PM gets COVID at critical point in election campaign end of list
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