That is something the White House does not acknowledge,” the host shot back. “That is something the president, who is a businessperson, understands that completely,” the

Sen. Markwayne Mullin made a frank admission on Wednesday, telling CNN that President Donald Trump's tariffs are effectively a tax that consumers will be stuck paying. The post Republican Senator Admits Trump’s Tariffs Are ‘A Tax and It Will Be Passed on To Consumers’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) called tariffs “a tax” that he says will be passed on to consumers in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. Mullin added that tariffs will open up markets for the US.

The voting change is the latest example of the legislative branch offloading its constitutional trade authority to the executive branch.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said Democrats should "shut up" about the negative effects of President Donald Trump's tariffs during an interview on Fox Business on Wednesday. "No pain, no gain — that's what we used to tell our football players,