There’s no love for Trump’s tariffs from House Republicans

Published December 6, 2016 7:31pm ET



A unified House Republican conference has a message for President-elect Trump: Stop pushing a 35 percent retaliatory tariff. A penalty for U.S. companies that choose foreign labor over American workers is not going to happen.

That’s the most substantive policy rebuke to date, coming from across the ideological spectrum and uniting industrialist sympathizers with free market ideologues.

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