Just 42 percent of Americans think Trump's trade war will help economy, new poll finds Lack of support for tariffs come as Trump paused planned levies on Mexico and Canada for a month.
Voters remain unsupportive of the Trump administration’s proposals to impose tariffs on U.S. trading partners Canada, Mexico, and China, though there’s also considerable confusion throughout the country about how tariffs even work.
As The Independent has reported, economists have consistently predicted large-scale tariffs of the kind Trump is proposing will raise consumer prices, fuel inflation and harm the U.S. economy.
Trump himself seems to be admitting that tariffs might cause some economic chaos, despite campaigning aggressively against inflation during the Biden years.
Gauging popular support for Trump’s policies is further complicated by the fact that Americans don’t really seem to know what a tariff is.
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