President Trump has made one intention very clear, that being that he will be working to restore the United States’ industrial base. He’s been taking steps to do that, and many of those steps have involved tariffs intended to balance trade. This effort has culminated (so far) with the April 2nd “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs. Democrats and even some Republicans are opposing the tariffs, but one administration member, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, went on record on Friday in support of the president’s plans.
Rubio, speaking at NATO headquarters in Brussels, made the remark after taking issue with a reporter’s claim that world economies are “crashing” in the wake of Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs.
“We have to be a country to think we’re the largest consumer market in the world, and yet the only thing we export is services, and we need to stop…
