Fox News contributor says Trump reversing course on tariffs to lower prices “seems like something of an admission”
Guy Benson: “President Trump looks like he's going to bring down some tariffs and therefore prices, which seems like something of an admission from the administration that these are related. Sometimes they have denied that.”
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From the November 17, 2025, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom
GUY BENSON (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): A communications problem is something that White Houses deal with all the time. The Biden administration kept calling their reality problems a communications problem or a messaging problem. And ultimately, it was the results that were the issue there. So, the Trump administration is going to have to provide and deliver those results for the American people, and clearly they recognize that. I think it is sensible to give people like a six-month timeline, saying, we think it's going to get better for these reasons. But the whole ballgame from the midterms will be whether or not people agree and feel it in their own lives, you know, six, eight months from now leading up to those elections. So, President Trump looks like he's going to bring down some tariffs and therefore prices, which seems like something of an admission from the administration that these are related. Sometimes they have denied that.
But I think we saw two weeks ago, the Democrats used this issue to clobber Republicans, among others, to do well in those off-year elections. And it might be galling to some of us that the Democrats have already reclaimed the mantle of affordability given the mess that they created under Biden, but politics ain't fair, Dana, and it's what the American people want, and what they are experiencing in their lives. And it's the job of Republicans who got hired to fix it, to fix it.