{"id":180851,"date":"2019-06-06T01:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T01:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/warren-criticizes-trumps-dart-throwing-mexico-tariff-decision.html"},"modified":"2019-06-06T01:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T01:49:27","slug":"warren-criticizes-trumps-dart-throwing-mexico-tariff-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/warren-criticizes-trumps-dart-throwing-mexico-tariff-decision.html","title":{"rendered":"Warren criticizes Trump’s ‘dart throwing’ Mexico tariff decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELKHART, Ind. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to impose tariffs on Mexico as \u201crandom dart throwing\u201d that lacks a coherent strategy. <\/p>\n

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Trump unexpectedly told Mexico last week to take a harder line on curbing illegal immigration or face 5% tariffs on all its exports to the United States, rising to as much as 25% later in the year. On Tuesday, Trump said he expected to impose the tariffs as of Monday. <\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s random dart throwing ain\u2019t helping anybody,\u201d Warren, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, told reporters after a campaign event in Elkhart, Indiana. <\/p>\n

Moments earlier, before a crowd of about 600 in the town with a large manufacturing sector, Warren assailed companies that are moving production abroad. While that echoed Trump\u2019s criticism, she faulted his approach. <\/p>\n

\u201cLets be clear \u2013 tariff policy by tweet does not work,\u201d Warren said. \u201cRandomly raising tariffs on a handful of goods with no coherent policy and doing it nation by nation makes no sense at all.\u201d <\/p>\n

Warren is one of more than 20 Democrats vying for the Democratic nomination to challenge Trump in the November 2020 election. <\/p>\n

Mexican officials will seek to persuade the White House in talks hosted by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday that their government has done enough to stem immigration and avoid looming tariffs. The tariff fight merges two of Trump\u2019s biggest campaign promises, on immigration and fair trade. <\/p>\n

\u201cNobody goes into battle by themselves when they can be stronger by having allies in it,\u201d Warren said, calling for a \u201ccoherent trade policy.\u201d <\/p>\n

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, who is also running to be a Democratic presidential nominee, criticized Trump for creating \u201cchaos\u201d by creating the tariffs and promising more. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the kind of chaos he likes,\u201d Klobuchar said in an appearance on CNN on Tuesday. \u201cAnd I just think that\u2019s not how you embark on international diplomacy with one of our best allies. <\/p>\n

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, another Democratic presidential hopeful, had a similar criticism. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis president has no plan and no ability to have a thoughtful approach towards trade or the economy,\u201d Gillibrand said on Monday in a town hall on Fox News. \u201cBecause if he wanted to reduce the trade deficit, he\u2019s only grown it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Reporting by Ginger Gibson; Editing by Richard Chang<\/p>\n

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ELKHART, Ind. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to impose tariffs on Mexico as \u201crandom dart throwing\u201d that lacks a coherent strategy. Trump unexpectedly told Mexico last week to take a harder line on curbing illegal immigration or face 5% tariffs on all its exports to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-180851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}