Trump tariff measure scores endorsement from Senate Democrat Tammy Baldwin

Published April 9, 2025 5:00am ET



EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) agrees with President Donald Trump on a portion of his tariff policy, a rare harmonization across the aisle as Democrats rail against the president’s wider agenda.

Baldwin, the third-term Democrat who narrowly secured reelection last November in Trump-won Wisconsin, is on board with the president’s executive order closing the so-called de minimis tariff loophole for China and Hong Kong that has long allowed cheap foreign goods to avoid import taxes.

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