On Monday, Senator Roger Marshall appeared on Newsmax and urged Americans to trust President Donald Trump’s approach on tariffs. He noted the strong economy we had under Trump’s presidency, and argued that the United States is in a favorable position considering the large consumer market, and pointed out how tariffs can bring jobs back to America.
“Everyone needs to remember that America is in the catbird’s seat,” Marshall said during his appearance on Newsmax’s Wake Up America, “that everybody needs us way more than we need them. We are the largest consumer market in the world. Last year, [former President] Joe Biden gave us $1.2 trillion in a trade deficit. So, we traded goods back and forth, and the rest of the countries, everyone else, ended up with $1.2 trillion more than we do. So, that needs to be addressed.”
He continued, “When I hear the word tariff, I think about the word jobs – American jobs. Jobs coming back home. Already we’ve seen $3 trillion committed to investing into America. That’s going to mean hundreds of thousands of jobs. But along with that, Congress needs to do our job. We need to roll back regulations, we need to cut taxes, and we need to make energy affordable. If we do those things, our economy is going to grow, grow, grow good American jobs, and that’s what’s going to give us long-term success in this country.”
Marshall called out Wall Street’s negative reaction to Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement last week. “They hate President Trump,” he said. “They went from obsession to absolute psychosis now. They’re way beyond obsession; they have a psychosis now, and they’re detached from reality. Remember, Trump 45 gave us the strongest economy in my professional lifetime: low inflation, low interest rates, low unemployment. [There was] a good jobs report recently, as well. So, this tariff [situation] is one small piece of a bigger economy.”
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were more than 225,000 “quality jobs” added to the U.S. economy in March alone. A figure that Marshall described as nearly “twice as many jobs as people were predicting.”
“Most of Joe Biden’s jobs that he added were government jobs and part-time jobs,” the senator explained. “In this jobs report, a lot of these are construction jobs, they’re full-time jobs; they’re not government jobs. This is the tip of the iceberg. I think at the end of the day, that’s part of the American dream, right? To be able to have a job that you can support your family and maybe be able to afford to buy your first house and buy your first pickup truck and maybe even your first bass boat.
“So, I think that we’re going in the right direction,” he added. “It’s a great jobs report, it’s a good first number. I told one of my friends yesterday, look, this is complicated. But trust President Trump, he’s done this before; we had a great economy. I think that this is the start of a golden era.”