WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (PA-04), member of the House Committee on Appropriations, released the following statement on President Trump’s 90-day pause on his new round of tariffs:
“One week ago, President Trump announced the latest installment of his on-again off-again tariffs.
I urged the President to reverse course — concerned that his reckless tariffs would be harmful to the United States, our relationships with trusted trading partners, and our standing in the world.
In just one week, the damage to our markets, to everyday Americans’ retirement savings, was swift and severe.
Now, the President has retreated from his punishing and fickle tariffs with a 90-day pause for all trading partners but China — while we remain at the will of Trump’s erratic game of chicken with our closest allies.
This is not a coherent economic policy. This is self-inflicted chaos.
Businesses and Americans need certainty. And yet in the first 11 weeks of this Administration, our country has lost more than $11 trillion.
Article I of the Constitution grants Congress the ‘power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises…’ and also 'to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations… .’
Speaker Johnson and my Republican colleagues — including those from Pennsylvania — must immediately bring a measure to the floor to take back Congress’s authority on tariffs.”
