WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS), and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, questioned the Trump administration's reliance on a secret, closed-door process for exempting thousands of products from tariffs, which has favored politically connected companies and industries, while small businesses and family farms struggle to stay afloat.
Despite Donald Trump's initial promise to make no exemptions to his unprecedented global tariff spree, his administration has granted thousands of exclusions, w...