Navarro says tariffs will lead to tax cuts
Despite what economists have said, Trump’s tariff czar Peter Navarro continued to push that tariffs will lead to tax cuts.
“The message is that tariffs are tax cuts, tariffs are jobs, tariffs are national security, tariffs are great for America. Tariffs will make America great again,” Navarro said Sunday on “Fox News Sunday.”
Asked about Americans' concerns that the impacts of tariffs will show up in everyday costs, Navarro asserted that the tariffs would raise revenue for the U.S., and that Trump’s tax bill will provide tax benefits and tax credits to those who purchase American cars.
Diane Swonk, KPMG's chief economist, told ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz that the president’s plan to implement 25% tariffs on auto imports would not bring down prices.

“The economics does not suggest that at all, and I'm not alone. It's the economic consensus that actually, in fact, car prices will go up, and what we tend to see is some of it will be absorbed in margins, and some of it will show up in layoffs as higher costs go up in terms of production,” Swonk said.
GOP Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma said he’s “OK with the start of the negotiations” on tariffs.
“So, this is a negotiation with President Trump,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It's all a negotiation to see what are we going to do long-term. I feel like in some ways, in the economy, this is kind of like a kitchen remodel or a bath remodel -- there's a bit of a mess at the beginning, but everybody has a long-term look of where we're headed. It's going to be noisy for a little while, but we all know where we're headed, trying to reduce the prices for Americans and increase jobs.”
-ABC News’ Hannah Demissie