Hours into a hearing with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, members of the House Ways and Means Committee got the news: The thing they’d been talking about all morning — President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff program — was now mostly on pause.
Democrats were irate.
“You just found out three seconds ago, sitting here, we saw you. We’ve been discussing — you came here knowing that you were going to be turned off, that these tariffs were going to be turned off. Why didn’t you include that in your opening statement? Why didn’t you reference that as part of your testimony?” Rep. Steven Horsford asked Greer after the announcement from Trump on Truth Social.