Newsmax Host: This Is Painful, There Will Be Suffering

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: “The truth is that we don’t know what the impact will be short term on the American economy. I’ve heard a bunch of economists over the last month, some say that it will cause the economy to grow exponentially, others say the tariffs will tank the economy. My experience with Washington economists is that they make those late night psychic hotlines look respectable. Nobody knows the impact of these tariffs. We’re just going to have to wait and see.”

NEWSMAX HOST ROB SCHMITT: “The truth is, this is painful. This is a painful change, shifting anything. I mean, this country, our economy is like the Titanic. Flipping it in a different direction is difficult to do. It takes time to get it done. And in that time you’re going to have some suffering. But I don’t know that that means that we should just continue to move on this way as a country that’s tremendously in debt, a country that, I think he’s proven pretty well, has been taken advantage of. Isn’t it right to at least try to do the right thing and not think about politics?”