House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks at his weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington. (Getty Images)
The House minority leader added in his address that the Trump administration is "extreme" and that the president is "intentionally inflicting" economic "pain on the American people."
"Instead of costs going down, which Donald Trump promised would happen on day one of his presidency, costs aren't going down. They're going up. Inflation is going up. Donald Trump and Republicans are actually crashing the economy in real time," he said.
"They are intentionally inflicting pain on the American people," Jeffries claimed. "This Trump tax, these reckless tariffs will cost the American people thousands of dollars a year. It's the largest tax increase on the American people since 1968. This is what Donald Trump's presidency and Republicans in control of the House and the Senate are delivering to America, not lower costs."
President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
The Trump administration has celebrated the recent tariff announcements as evening the trade playing field for the U.S. after decades of other nations leveling lofty duty taxes on U.S. goods, as well as ushering in a job boon, lowering taxes for citizens and protecting the U.S. supply chain by manufacturing goods on American soil.
"American steel workers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen," Trump said from the White House Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon. "We have a lot of them here with us today. They really suffered, gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once-beautiful American dream. We had an American dream that you don't hear so much about. You did four years ago, and you are now. But you don't too often."
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"Now it's our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt," he continued. "And it will all happen very quickly. With today's action, we are finally going to be able to make America great again, greater than ever before. Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base."
Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
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