Hawley Wants Higher Tariffs On China As Part of Debt Cieling Negotiations

FILE – IN this Jan 15, 2019 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee committee member Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Attorney General nominee William Barr during a Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hawley is facing conservative backlash after raising concerns with President Donald Trump’s nominee to a high-profile appeals court. The Judicial Crisis Network on Monday announced plans to spend $500,000 on Missouri ads to sway Hawley to support D.C.-area U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Neomi Rao. Hawley on Monday told KFTK 97.1 FM Newstalk’s Marc Cox that Rao doesn’t have a strong record on abortion. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

(MISSOURINET) – As the deadline to raise the U-S debt ceiling approaches, Missouri U-S Senator Josh Hawley wants to include placing higher tariffs on Chinese imports as part of the negotiations. He’s sponsoring a bill that would do so:

Hawley says China is cheating on trade, and he accuses the Communist government in Beijing of stealing 4 million jobs from the U-S over the past 20 years. The U-S House has passed a bill that would raise the debt ceiling by 1-point-5 trillion dollars for one year, in exchange for 4-point-8 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years. Democrats want the debt ceiling raised without any spending cuts.