Biden’s Commerce Chief Gina Raimondo Praises Trump’s China Tariffs as ‘Effective’
President Joe Biden’s pick for Commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, on Thursday acknowledged that the tariffs on China imposed by former President Donald Trump have been “effective,” in comments that signal the current administration won’t soon roll back the highly contentious duties.
“The data show that those tariffs have been effective,” Raimondo, who was confirmed to her Cabinet role on Tuesday, told MSNBC. “What President Biden has said is there will be a whole-of-government review of all of these policies and decide what it makes sense to maintain.”
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House GOP pushes Senate to pause Biden Commerce pick over lack of clarity on Huawei Print this article
A group of nearly two dozen Republican congressmen called on the Senate to hit the pause button on President Biden’s nominee for commerce secretary over her lack of a promise to keep Chinese Communist Party-linked telecom giant Huawei on the U.S. trade blacklist after the Trump administration deemed it a national security threat.
Gina Raimondo, the Democratic governor of Rhode Island, often took a strong rhetorical stance on China throughout her confirmation hearing Jan. 26 but would not guarantee that Huawei would remain on the Commerce Department’s “entities list” and the Biden administration hasn’t publicly provided such a promise ahead of her scheduled Wednesday committee vote.