Republican Rep. John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, broke with President Thomas Jefferson in large part over foreign policy. In a political sense, it represented the first major setback of Jefferson's two-term administration.

"When [President William McKinley], most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told reporters. “When Smoot and Hawley put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically.”

Steep new tariffs triggered a stock market sell-off Thursday, upping pressure on Republican lawmakers, some of whom are worried about the political fallout.

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Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A group of Republican lawmakers and conservative donors has hit out at Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on US trading partners,