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Average Ameriacn rank	Wed Feb 11 19:11:53 But Trump is making them pay for it!! https://th...witzerland-tariffs-phone-call/ Trump says he raised Swiss tariffs after leader’s call: ‘I didn’t really like the way she talked’ by Ryan Mancini - 02/11/26 President Trump said Tuesday he raised tariffs on Switzerland after a phone call with the country’s former president, saying he did not approve of “the way she talked.” Trump told Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow that he once had an “emergency call from, I believe, the prime minister of Switzerland, and she was very aggressive. Nice, but very aggressive.” He recalled that she repeatedly said, “we are a small country.” “Again and again and again. I couldn’t get her off the phone,” the president continued. “So [the tariffs were] at 30 percent, and I didn’t really like the way she talked to us, and so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39 percent, and then I got inundated by people from Switzerland and I figured, ‘Do you know what? We’ll do something that’s a little bit more palatable.'” Trump was likely referring to former Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter, who left office Dec. 31 and was succeeded by current President Guy Parmelin. The Hill reached out to the White House for clarification. He previously referred to the same phone call during a speech last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Trump gave a similar description of the conversation, adding that she “just rubbed me the wrong way, I’ll be honest with you.” Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Trump’s comments were an admission that his tariff policies “are not about national security,” a claim he has frequently made. “In the case of Switzerland, he increased tariffs because… *checks notes*… he did not like the way the Swiss leader ‘talked to us,'” the committee’s Democrats wrote in a statement shared on the social platform X. “Republicans must join Democrats to end this reckless behavior.” The U.S. and Switzerland reached a trade agreement in November to reduce tariffs on Swiss imports from 39 percent to 15 percent. Switzerland and Liechtenstein would also remove tariffs on nuts, certain fruits, fish and seafood, chemicals and spirits, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said at the time. On Tuesday, three House Republicans joined Democrats in voting against banning members’ ability to call snap votes to repeal the president’s tariffs. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) opposed the legislation, with Bacon writing on the social platform X that “Congress needs to be able to debate on tariffs.” The vote will allow Democrats to move forward with a resolution to repeal Trump’s emergency declaration for import taxes on Canada at the request of Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Meeks is expected to force a vote repealing tariffs on Canada as early as Wednesday. Trump used declarations of national emergencies as the basis for implementing global and specific tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada. National emergencies can be repealed by joint resolutions in Congress, as the National Emergencies Act allows. The Supreme Court is also considering the legality of using a provision under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose the levies. The justices appeared unlikely to make their decisions along ideological lines during oral arguments last year. The Marquette Law School Poll also released a survey last week that found 63 percent of respondents want the Supreme Court to restrict “the president’s authority to impose tariffs,” while 36 percent said they want the justices to “hold that the President has the authority to set tariffs.”
murder rank	Wed Feb 11 23:36:22 The US is King Trump's personal property to do with as he pleases. -
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