{"id":8095,"date":"2025-04-08T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-republicans-nudge-trumps-trade-chief-for-a-tariff-end-game\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:34:10","slug":"senate-republicans-nudge-trumps-trade-chief-for-a-tariff-end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-republicans-nudge-trumps-trade-chief-for-a-tariff-end-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans nudge Trump&#8217;s trade chief for a tariff end game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Republicans urged President Donald Trump\u2019s trade chief to negotiate deals with world leaders in a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning, signaling, albeit gently, that they are eager for an end game in the president\u2019s market-roiling trade war.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) opened the hearing by pressing U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on the administration\u2019s \u201cobjective\u201d for his sweeping \u201creciprocal tariffs\u201d that are scheduled to go into effect first thing Wednesday, saying he hoped the goal was expanding trade and opening up markets for American exporters<\/p>\n<p>Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) was even more pointed. \u201cEveryone that I talk to is grateful that we\u2019re actually attacking the trade deficit issue and trying to bring down barriers to trade,\u201d Lankford told Greer. But \u201cthey also want to get a timeline,\u201d for when the tariffs will be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>And he expressed doubt about one of Trump\u2019s main goals for the steep new global tariffs \u2014 erasing the United States\u2019 trade deficits with foreign countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost countries in the world are never going to buy as much as we are purchasing,\u201d Lankford said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans urged President Donald Trump\u2019s trade chief to negotiate deals with world leaders in a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning, signaling, albeit gently, that they are eager for an end game in the president\u2019s market-roiling trade war. Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) opened the hearing by pressing U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}