SPOKANE, Wash. — Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), who sits on the Senate Finance Committee, has been outspoken in her frustration with President Donald Trump's blanket tariffs. In Spokane on Thursday the senator took questions on new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on India.

“This is horrible, the cost to Americans in raising household costs, food costs, basically manufacturers having to pay more input costs and then raising manufacturing challenges for them—it’s just not what we need to do right now,” Senator Cantwell said, “We are a big trade state and we have benefited from building alliances and opening up markets, and now we are contracting those opportunities and making it more expensive on Americans.”

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