Democrats are rushing to say thisPresident Donald Trump’s tariffTerrible, terrible. But Democrats also assert that they are not in nature hostile to recovery.

What Trump’s political opponents say they really hate is the “chaos” he launched.

“The definitions are an important tool in the Economic Tools Fund,” said Senator.Elizabeth WarrenD-mass. “Trump creates chaos, and that chaos undermines our economy and our families, in the short term in the long run … He has just created a hurricane around the world, and this is not good for anyone.”

Senator Tim Kane, D-FA said. , Democrats have a consensus on “a unified concept, which can work targeted definitions, throughout the bad definitions.”

“The correct targeting in the eye of the beholder, but no one next to our side believes that the tariff is absolutely.”

Democrats aim to transmit them that they are reasonable, focusing on the capable rule and are in line with the hardship of the financial market. It is a stadium towards swinging voters who want to see more industrialization, but they are uncomfortable with the consequences of Trump’s approach to definitions. The risks are also an accurate argument at a time when Pithy criticizes faster and spreads on social media from the measuring policy analyzes.

To the White House Trump, this message is only hypocrisy.

The White House press secretary Caroline Levitte on Tuesday noted that Representative Nancy Pelosi extended California, who will later become the Speaker of the House of Representatives, was warning in June 1996 of that trade withChinaIt means high trade deficit and job losses.

“No less than our economic future, our national security and our democratic principles,” Pelosi said before the House of Representatives not to cancel the decision of Democratic President Bill Clinton to extend the most obvious trade situation in China for another year.

The Trump administration views these notes as evidence that Democrats are already supporting what Trump is doing, despite their declared opposition.

“Everyone in Washington, whether they want to admit this or not, knows that this president is right when it comes to tariffs and when it comes to trade,” Levitte told reporters. “Nancy Pelosi can thank President Trump today.”

Not all Democrats have linked the needle clean.

Michigan Governor Gretchen and a speech in Washington on Wednesday calling for the use of customs tariffs such as “scalpel”. Hours later, she was in the Oval Office with Trump – at a moment who was arrested on the video – where the president signed directives to the Ministry of Justice to investigate two of his general critics and gave non -binding reflections on customs tariff negotiations.

The Waysal office later said in a statement that she “was surprised” that she was brought to this event after a meeting with Trump and that “her presence is not in support of the measures taken or the data that was conducted in this event.”

Trump imposed this month unilaterally on China, the European Union, Mexico, Canada, Japan and South Korea, among dozens of other countries.

But on Wednesday, most of the customs tariffs were stopped for 90 days while applying the import of the baseline by 10 % to most countries, a 145 % tariff on Chinese goods and a group of 25 % on Mexico and Canada. There is also a tariff for cars, steel and aluminum, with more specific products.

The customs tariff is expected to generate hundreds of billions of dollars annually in new revenues, but the intermediate American family can witness a decrease in the available income with more than $ 4,000, as importers and companies pass the costs of fees.

U.S. interest rates rise likeInvestors are concernedOn the safety of Trump’s policies. The main stock indicators are broken andConsumer feelingsAt its second lowest level in the history of the University of Michigan.

Some Democrats are trying to keep focusing on their voters, and reviving the talk points from the Trump tariff battles during his first term.

“Farmers, in particular, who have been severely wounded by Trump’s commercial wars, feel terrified that this may be existential for their business,” said Senator Tami Baldwin, de Wisconsin. “These are mostly small and medium -sized family farms. The costs of their inputs will rise and their export markets will be closed.”

Representative Join Moore, de Weiss, said that the definitions will be “catastrophic” for both urban and rural societies in their jurisdiction. But Moore added that Democrats still have to call for raising work standards and productive to preserve American goods and services competitive in global markets.

Moore said: “I know that many car specialists in voting for Donald Trump because they believe that he may give them some relief,” Moore said. “But the prices of cars will rise because the parts of the ingredients are everywhere. There is no strategy for that.”

But not all Democrats want to hedge their response to Trump’s commercial tools.

“I am not a little interested in what a democratic response should be,” said Senator Brian Shatz of Hawaii. “Trump deliberately destroys the American economy, and I think we should only say that and not make it very complicated.”

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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