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Jared Golden: “Democrats are moving away from the labor side of this…”

Featuring: Jared Golden, Democratic | U.S. House, Maine's 2nd Congressional District

The Global Tariff with Rep. Jared Golden

Published April 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 39:39

Those debates in the 90s and early 2000s were often Democrats arguing with Democrats. Increasingly, Democrats are moving away from the labor side of this argument, now defending free trade deals thoroughly against tariffs. And I think that's really just been a knee jerk reaction to President Trump and the fact that he is the one that is now leading this movement. (39:39–39:51)

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Asserts that Democrats are shifting towards defending free trade deals and opposing tariffs.

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“We've lost like 30, 35,000 manufacturing jobs in this century [in Maine].”
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“In Trump's first round of tariffs, we saw a pretty decent economy. In 2018, 2019, wages were outpacing inflation.”
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“Canadian lobster industry dumps a bunch of lobster into the US Market, plummeting the boat price.”
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“The gray zone is the only contested maritime border for the United States.”
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“This [10% tariff bill] will help us start to erase trade deficits and shift the landscape to favor more domestic production.”
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“When Biden came into office, I kept waiting to see the rollback of the Trump tariffs, and they never came.”
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“In my first term in Congress, I voted against [USMCA], maybe an improvement on NAFTA.”
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“I was very skeptical that we would be able to enforce [new labor and environmental standards against Mexico].”
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“I've heard from people that are basically saying, like, yeah, go ahead, go down there and try and Organize Mexican workers or see these…”
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“The administration's priorities were kind of big ag in the Midwest, exports of their agricultural goods, pharmaceuticals, ip.”
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“From the perspective of the losses we've suffered in Maine because of NAFTA, not much was in [USMCA] that I thought was really going to…”
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“I'd like to see some things get fixed there, to pay more attention to the types of communities that have lost jobs.”
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“There are elements of President Trump's trade policy that Congress should make permanent.”
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“I'm the sponsor of the 10% tariff bill.”
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“There's a growing bipartisan consensus that we have to be more aggressive in looking out for the United States, particularly when it comes…”
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“The President's been talking about separately is the erasing the de minimis loophole.”
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“A big loophole lets a lot of goods in and undermines American businesses, tied to the fentanyl crisis.”
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“Federal law enforcement agencies have a very hard time getting into bonded warehouses to inspect packages.”
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“The renegotiation of the USMCA was due anyways.”
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“Competition between Canadian and Maine fishermen in [the gray zone] is only increasing.”
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“Maine has seen a lot of our processing capability go to Canada.”
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“Canadian workers get health care from the government, and have very low workers compensation costs.”
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“We've just never seen [the creation of high-tech or service sector jobs] come true for the most part in Maine.”
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“We're sending a bunch of our raw goods... to Canada, they're doing the value added manufacturing, processing, and then they're selling it…”
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“We're basically balanced with Canada in Maine anyways because they're sending us a lot of oil.”
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“We're operating at 60, 70% capacity. We can go to 100 very quickly... That's jobs. And they are good paying jobs.”
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“They would be much more competitive in the domestic market or the export market if they had processing capacity that no longer exists.”
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“We all know we're having a hard time building the navy that we believe we need for our national security.”
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“Polarization has really driven Democrats, even those who used to be with me on these issues away from it.”
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“I see a lot of Republicans who might say publicly, like, oh, yeah, you know, we're, we're with the president on this, but you don't see much…”
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“In order for the president to be successful in the long term, he's got to find a way to try and reach out and make this bipartisan.”
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“My biggest fear is we go at this in the short term, we experience some of this disruption and pain, and then a new president comes in and…”
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“I think we need to support unions, make sure that [financial benefits] are being broadly shared with the workers.”
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“I would like to see [tariff revenue] go towards supporting manufacturing in the form of subsidies.”
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“We could think about what are the key goods that Americans need and families need to be healthy and well off.”
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“We could put money into making sure that those prices are staying steady or even going down.”
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“I do see some resistance on the other side of the aisle. I think in part just because it was the Biden administration.”
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