Washington – Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, backed the idea behind the reciprocal tariffs of President Trump on Wednesday morning, but argued that the taxes should be applied as a “scalpel.”
Whitmer, seen by many as a possible contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, told an audience in the capital of the nation that “I understand the motivation behind the tariffs” whose application has the stock market in the free fall.
“This is where President Trump and I agree,” said the 53 -year -old man. “We need to do more things in the United States. More cars and french fries. More steel and ships. We need fair trade.”
While the campaign efforts for Kamala Harris in 2024 included an induce video of a “Dorito Communion”, the rate approach must be “well done”, he also admitted that it was an interrogation of journalist Gretchen Howson would be different from Trumps.
“I don’t know how I would have promulgated them differently,” said the governor. “I mean that I really thought about that. What I thought is that tariffs should be used as a scalpel.”
Trump’s reciprocal rates that surround everything “could not have arrived at a worm, Whitmer argued, citing inflation and a higher cost of living.
“You cannot simply take out the tariff hammer and balance in each problem without a clear and defined final objective,” he said, launching the solution as a bipartisan project several presidential terms that bring together “friends” against our adversaries.
Trump, 78, imposed a base rate of 10% at 12:01 am on Saturday and reached the countries of “Súas” with higher rates at 12:01 AM on Wednesday, including a huge total rate of 104% in China after Beijing represents against the United States.
The White House said Tuesday that Trump had ordered his economic team to pursue negotiations with foreign countries to obtain “custom” trade agreements for the United States.
Whitmer’s bipartisan message is in line with his focus after Harris’s loss.
The governor of Michigan, who is limited to term and will leave office in January 2027, has been shy about his concrete political plans, but has said that the country is ready for a president.
“They have postulated a lot for president and lost. And no one concludes that people do not want a male president,” he said in January.
“Then, for anyone who declares, it is a gender, it probably betrays that it has their own agenda at stake, instead of really looking at what happened in this last choice.”
