Trump Steel Tariffs Bring Hope, Prosperity Back to Granite City

“Hiding in plain sight in a suburb of St. Louis is one of the great success stories of President Donald J. Trump’s tough trade policies,” National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro writes. “This is the rebirth of the Granite City steelworks, idled in 2015 — along with about 2,000 steelworkers — under a drowning flood of subsidized foreign imports.”

“U.S. Steel is back,” President Trump said in Granite City today. 

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“In what President Donald Trump called ‘a very big day for free and fair trade,’ he and the leader of the European Union agreed Wednesday to work to end tariffs on nonautomotive products,” Fred Lucas reports for The Daily Signal. “Trump said the U.S. and EU would work to reduce trade barriers and increase trade on chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical products, and soybeans.”

In USA Today, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue explains the importance of President Trump’s stand for American trade. “In the Olympics, if opposing athletes continuously broke the rules while the officials let them get away with it, American fans would want our coaches to raise a fuss,” the Secretary writes. “That’s what has been happening in the arena of international trade, and President Donald Trump is rightly calling out our competitors for unfair play.”

“President Trump threatened Turkey with sanctions unless it releases detained U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been held for nearly two years,” Jessica Donati reports in The Wall Street Journal. “The United States will impose large sanctions on Turkey for their long time detainment of Pastor Andrew Brunson, a great Christian, family man and wonderful human being,” the President wrote on Twitter.

“Judge Kavanaugh is an outstanding nominee, and the single most qualified person in the country to serve on the United States Supreme Court,” Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant writes in the Clarion-Ledger. “The President promised to select a candidate who would apply the law and rely on the Constitution in order to deliver justice. President Trump kept that promise.”