Schumer says Trump 'feeling the heat' after reciprocal tariff pause

Minutes aft President Donald Trump announced a intermission connected immoderate reciprocal tariffs, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called it grounds the medication is "feeling the heat" from Democrats, but claimed "irretrievable damage" had already been done to the U.S. economy.

Schumer said helium and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, some D-N.Y., were going to speech to reporters astir the effects of Trump's tariffs connected idiosyncratic IRAs and brokerage accounts – but pivoted conscionable arsenic the quality broke.

"It's inactive an issue, but not today," helium said.

"We're going to speech astir what conscionable happened… Let's beryllium clear. Donald Trump is feeling the vigor from Democrats and crossed America astir however atrocious these tariffs are. He is reeling. He is retreating, and that is simply a bully thing," Schumer claimed.

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Joined by Sens. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, and Andy Kim, D-N.J., the New York lawmakers jointly condemned what they called "chaos" successful the White House.

"Volatility successful our system is truthful destructive. President Trump whitethorn person paused these reciprocal tariffs, but he's maintained a 10% tariff connected each of them. Businesses volition present not put successful caller projects oregon grow their workforce due to the fact that they person nary thought of what is coming next," Gillibrand warned.

"A 90-day intermission means they don't cognize what's gonna hap astatine the extremity of the 90 days. A 10% is inactive going to wounded our families. These tariffs and this commercialized warfare are absurd. They're going to summation costs for mundane goods, from nutrient to lodging to thing you bargain for your household oregon your children. It's going to substance inflation."

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Schumer said Trump's White House is "governing by chaos" and that the president lacks the knowing of satellite affairs and "the facts."

He said unpredictability successful the markets volition and has stymied concern and occupation creation, and that American businesses cannot representation retired their future.

Hirono echoed her chap Democrats, describing Trump's 2nd word arsenic "one damn happening aft another."

"Governing by enforcement order: astir of them are illegal. There are implicit 100 lawsuits present to forestall them from doing each these things that helium shouldn't adjacent beryllium doing. But the effect of each this is chaos," she said.

"We tin propulsion retired each the numbers, however overmuch of these tariffs volition outgo a emblematic family. Do you deliberation helium cares? Because if helium did, helium wouldn't bash it. He doesn't adjacent look. That is the happening that has to descend successful with the American people," Hirono added, comparing the existent enforcement economical argumentation to a crippled of craps.

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Kim said helium is proceeding from radical each crossed New Jersey that Gillibrand's assertion "the harm has been done" is correct.

"When it comes to these tiny businesses, due to the fact that the uncertainty remains, we don't cognize what's gonna hap aft the 90 days," helium said.

Kim said the U.S. is nary longer a planetary person owed to Trump, and that the White House should beryllium joining Democrats successful gathering an system that tin rival China.

He aboriginal claimed that "America First" had translated to "America alone."

"I've ne'er seen this level of isolation of the United States arsenic I bash close now, and that is truthful damaging connected truthful galore antithetic fronts," Kim claimed.

A FOX Business newsman aboriginal asked Schumer astir appearing "at a nonaccomplishment for words" upon the news.

"We cognize that Donald Trump doesn't deliberation things through…" Schumer replied. "But connected thing truthful vital, similar the full system of America, the magnitude of wealth radical person successful their pockets, successful their livelihoods, connected thing arsenic captious arsenic this. Yes, it leaves you agape…"

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House for remark but did not instantly perceive back.

When asked by reporters astir Schumer's criticisms, Trump said Democratic leaders "knew you had to bash it."

Trump went connected to accidental semipermanent benefits of the tariff authorities volition "take a small conditioning" arsenic portion of a "transition to greatness."

Fox Business' Chase Williams contributed to this report.