Duckworth, Baldwin, union representatives slam Trump’s tariffs and waivers as sources of “atrophy” in U.S. manufacturing, ag
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Sen. Tammy Duckworth decried President Trump’s trade wars and their impact on American manufacturing capacity alongside union representatives in steel and paper manufacturing on a conference call Friday. The senators both hailed former Vice President Biden’s recently released “Build Back Better” plan as the solution to what they see as the U.S.’s manufacturing woes related to both COVID-19 and longer-running trends. “We don’t want to build back how we were before. We need to build back better. And Joe Biden’s got plans to do so,” said Baldwin, D-Madison. “Right now, we’re just barely hanging on,”