‘I’d like to kill ’em’: GOP takes on Trump tariffs
Republican senators are at their breaking point with Donald Trump’s protectionist trade blitz.
Not a party meeting goes by these days at which multiple Republicans don’t vent that the president isn’t listening to them — and plot how to fight back.
“I’d like to kill ’em,” groused Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a close Trump ally, referring to the administration’s expanding list of tariffs.
The mounting frustration with the Republican president is a warning sign for the party amid what’s been a surprisingly favorable stretch.