<p>One Democrat in Congress broke ranks to offer praise of President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs.</p>
<p>Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME), who hails from a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/maine-house-congress-golden-theriault-bb072ca55aaab2ebae3fb8b6339cb545" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hotly-contested</a> district and has a <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/jared_golden/412842/report-card/2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">track record</a> of cooperating with Republicans, endorsed the 10% baseline in the new tariff plan. The lower-end rate matches the one Golden put forward in a <a href="https://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases/golden-introduces-legislation-to-establish-universal-10-percent-tariff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> earlier this year, the congressman noted.</p>
<p>&#8220;President Trump has introduced a number of new tariff policies, and I and my team are already digging into the details. I’ll have more to say on the specifics in the next few days,&#8221; Golden said in a <a href="https://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases/golden-statement-on-president-trump-s-tariffs-announcements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;What I can say now is I’m pleased the president is building his tariff agenda on the foundation of a universal 10 percent tariff like the one I proposed in the BUILT USA Act,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This ring fence around the American economy is a good start to erasing our unsustainable trade deficits.&#8221;</p>
<p>Many congressional Democrats have spent the past day criticizing the new tariffs, which impose rates up to 50% on imports from dozens of countries.</p>
<p>&#8220;Trump&#8217;s tariffs are one of the dumbest decisions he has ever made as president—and that’s saying something,&#8221; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href="https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/1907835779218653350" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X.</p>
<p>Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill have even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bipartisan-pair-in-senate-moves-to-check-trump-on-tariffs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken steps</a> toward reining in Trump’s tariffs, although these efforts also face challenges.</p>
<p>Taking a more constructive approach, Golden offered to assist the Trump administration while agreeing with the president&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1907778962819829812" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stance</a> that decades of unfair trade practices have harmed the United States industrial base and American workers.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m eager to work with the president to fix the broken ‘free trade’ system that made multinational corporations rich but ruined manufacturing communities across the country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But tariffs must be paired with policies that prioritize American families’ prosperity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Golden also pushed for an approach that &#8220;benefits working people&#8221; and renegotiating trade deals like the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which Trump signed into law in 2018, &#8220;to support the Americans who are ready to ramp up production and support the rebuilding of our middle class — like the sawmills, processing plants, fishermen and farmers in the communities&#8221; he represents.</p>

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