{"id":76488,"date":"2026-07-24T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/democrats-accuse-trump-of-using-forced-labor-as-convenient-justification-for-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:54:56","slug":"democrats-accuse-trump-of-using-forced-labor-as-convenient-justification-for-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/democrats-accuse-trump-of-using-forced-labor-as-convenient-justification-for-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats accuse Trump of using forced labor as \u2018convenient\u2019 justification for tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president faced criticism after officials announced tariffs of between 10% and 12.5% on more than 80 countries<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/24\/donald-trump-tariffs-white-house-correspondents-dinner-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has been accused of using forced labor as \u201ca pretext\u201d to impose a fresh wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">tariffs<\/a> on dozens of countries, as critics warned of higher prices for Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The US president faced swift criticism from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> after his officials presented their latest effort to make his signature economic policy permanent following a string of high-profile legal setbacks. Some Republicans also expressed concern.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/24\/trump-forced-labor-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president faced criticism after officials announced tariffs of between 10% and 12.5% on more than 80 countries US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump has been accused of using forced labor as \u201ca pretext\u201d to impose a fresh wave of tariffs on dozens of countries, as critics warned of higher prices for Americans. &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats accuse Trump of using forced labor as \u2018convenient\u2019 justification for tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/democrats-accuse-trump-of-using-forced-labor-as-convenient-justification-for-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats accuse Trump of using forced labor as \u2018convenient\u2019 justification for tariffs\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76488","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\/76488","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=76488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}