Leading Senate Democrats Scold Mnuchin on Need to Stay Tough on China
The ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate minority leader and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Feb. 1 expressing their displeasure with his supposed dovish stance against China. "Any trade agreement…
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that merely addresses the trade balance with China and does not require China to make the permanent structural reforms necessary to remedy the very significant issues identified by the [Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's] investigation will be an abject failure," they wrote. They asked Mnuchin to clarify that it's not true that he has been arguing to back down on structural issues and resolve the trade war.