President Trump’s Trade Critics are Wrong -- His Tariffs Could Bring Major Benefits to America

“President Trump has done what any president should do – he’s made it clear that America will not allow the unfair trade practices that have led to enormous trade deficits to continue,” Andy Puzder, former CEO of CKE Restaurants, writes in Fox News. “Changing times require changing policies. Just because America’s trade practices made sense decades ago does not mean these same trade practices make sense in the 21st century.”

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In the Washington Examiner, Pete Kasperowicz reports that White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway says we have a simple choice when it comes to liberal calls to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: “You're either for... a sovereign nation that has a border, or you're for open borders and a lot of the crime that comes with that.”

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“The closer President Trump’s wall comes to completion, the closer we get to end the humanitarian crisis caused by our porous southern border. The Democrats’ dream of open borders and their unrelenting opposition to securing our border hurts the people they claim to care about the most,” writes Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, in Fox News.

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In The Detroit News, former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer writes that President Trump “has shown leadership and compassion while remaining resolute on enforcing the law at our border. Now that he has acted, Congress must follow his lead, stop the outrage and solve this problem with real action.”

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According to a new Gallup survey, “Americans continue to recognize a robust U.S. job market, with 65% saying that it is a good time to find a ‘quality job,’” Frank Newport reports. “These are the highest readings in Gallup's 17-year history of tracking this measure of Americans' views of the employment situation.”

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“President Trump’s trade strategies will only continue to bring more jobs to the St. Louis metro area. The media mocked the president for saying he would bring jobs back to America, but it happened in Granite City and is happening across the country,” former Missouri State Sen. John Loudon writes in the St. Louis Business Journal.