Texas senator\u2019s comments another sign of Republican unease over \u2018reciprocal tariffs\u2019 and stock market plunge<\/p>\n
Ted Cruz<\/a>, the US senator from Texas, has warned that his fellow Republicans risk a \u201cbloodbath\u201d in the 2026 midterm elections if Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cliberation day\u201d tariffs cause a recession.<\/p>\n Cruz also warned that the president\u2019s tariffs<\/a>, if they stay in place for long and are met by global retaliation on American goods, could trigger a full-blown trade war that \u201cwould destroy jobs here at home, and do real damage to the US economy\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Texas senator\u2019s comments another sign of Republican unease over \u2018reciprocal tariffs\u2019 and stock market plunge Ted Cruz, the US senator from Texas, has warned that his fellow Republicans risk a \u201cbloodbath\u201d in the 2026 midterm elections if Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cliberation day\u201d tariffs cause a recession. Cruz also warned that the president\u2019s tariffs, if they stay … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}