for democratic candidates to come in and make the argument that the economy overall is failing because iowa has the third lowest unappointed rate in the country, just 2.4%. thank you. let s go to thomas who has a question about trade. hi, senator. what is your thoughts on the president recent announcement to implement in tariffs on the goods that are imported into the united states from mexico click. i think what president trump is done is highly problematic, he is using trade policy on an issue related to immigration not an issue related to trade or the economy. it s a misuse. president trump is jonas and his trade war that he has had he is more interested in a fight then he is in solving the problem. he does not actually have a real strategic plan. it s harming farmers. i ve talked to farmers draw iowa, i ve seen the devastated
democratic contest is going to be one of the toughest states for democratic candidates to come in and make the argument that the economy overall is failing because iowa has the third lowest unappointed rate in the country, just 2.4%. thank you. let s go to thomas who has a question about trade. hi, senator. what is your thoughts on the president recent announcement to implement in tariffs on the goods that are imported into the united states from mexico click. i think what president trump is done is highly problematic, he is using trade policy on an issue related to immigration not an issue related to trade or the economy. it s a misuse. president trump is jonas and his trade war that he has had he is more interested in a fight then he is in solving the problem. he does not actually have a real strategic plan. it s harming farmers. i ve talked to farmers draw
quote, beautiful word indeed. but many republican lawmakers and business leaders beg to differ with that sentiment. we ll talk to one of them about the potential damage a trade war with mexico could do. you re live in the cnn newsroom. plants capture co2. what if other kinds of plants captured it too? if these industrial plants had technology that captured carbon like trees we could help lower emissions. carbon capture is important technology -
trump s efforts to rewrite the north american free trade agreeme agreement, the imposition of tariffs against mexico will undermine its positive impact and would impose significant cost on the u.s. auto industry. the u.s. chamber of commerce is calling trump s proposed tariff a tax, plain and simple. at 5%, that s $17 billion on additional taxes on consumers and businesses. the president s defenders say no way. his use of tariffs is a powerful tool to trade more fairly. and consumers will not be squeezed. the government of china and mexico will pay for it. china already feeling the heat of trump s trade poxcies is threatening to hit back by restricting exports of rare natural minerals mined there.
there. these tariffs will start at 5% on june 10th, then as you see, they ll slowly increase month by month, hitting 25% by october 1st. butit s not clear what mexico would have to do for president trump to lift them. he wrote they will be there, quote, until such time as migrants coming into our country stop. when acting chief of staff mick mulvaney was asked about the specifics, he admitted there really weren t any. he said, quote, we re going to judge success here by the number of people crossing the border and that number needs to start coming down immediately in a significant and substantial number. so we re going to take this and looked at it on a day-to-day and week to week basis. i want to bring in a ceo and business owner. does it worry you that the administration doesn t really have specifics as to what it s going to take to actually stop or remove these tariffs? oh, it worries me