While Senator Chak Shumar, DN.Y., and Ben Ray Lujan, DNM, cited the estimates of economists that President Donald Trump’s tariffs would spend an additional $ 5,000 per year to American families, GOP Sen John Kennedy, R-La, insisting, “we do not know that they suggest that they suggests to fool themselves.
Kennedy told Fox News Digital at Capital, “I followed all these economists. Most of them make these late night mental hotline honorable.” “They don’t know more than anyone else. We are in unwanted water here.”
According to Shumor and Lujan, American may possibly expect to see an increase in cost equal to $ 5,000 per year on American families.
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President Donald Trump has placed a chart as he comments on the mutual tariffs during the “Make America Demender Again” program at Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025. (Brendon Smileowski/AFP through Getty Image)
“When the average American family sits down and tries to find out how they are going to pay for things, and they hear that they can pay $ 5,000, which they had to pay first – and they may not be able to buy a new car, then they cannot be able to support the new drug that grandmother needs, they are not able to plan for a year – they are not able to plan for a year – they are saying that they are saying that they are saying that they are saying that they are saying that they are saying that they are needed for a year. Said.
“It is very big on American families. All – To help billionaires to cut tax. ,
Lujan left the spirit from Shumar, pointing to economists that Kennedy exploded as less respectable than “late night mental hotline”.
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“There is no question that American people are the ones who are going to bear the brunt of this,” Lujan argued. “The actuari reports and other economists who are excluding them are suggesting that it is going to be a national sales tax on about Rs 5,000 American people. This is not correct.
“If the President will be open to use the tariff tariff as a tool – something that I am open and I think others are – that’s one thing,” Lujan said. “But when he is arbitrarily going across the board and trying to slap numbers … I am very worried for my components who are going to pay from pockets.”

Sen Chak Shumar, DN.Y.; Sen John Kennedy, R-La.; And Ben Ray Lujan, DNM (Getty Image; Fox News)
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Kennedy argued that such projections had no really basis.
“The truth is that we don’t know. These economists do not know,” Kennedy said insisting. “These are unwanted water. We do not have such tariffs in a long time. It can be a pure positive. President Trump implemented the tariff in his first term. The economy did not hurt. It can be a negative. I am saying that in Washington, DC, in DC, for every economist, for every economist, for every economist, there are uniform and opposite economists, and they are both wrong.”