Congressman Murphy illustrates trade debate, US trade deficits with graphic to defend Trump using emergency powers

North Carolina Congressman Greg Murphy tells US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer that America's manufacturing capacity had absolutely plummeted as evidenced by a slide showing the severe US trade deficit in manufactured goods, fuels, and other products, which justified the president's emergency declaration and aggressive trade interventions, argued that without reversing this downward trend, combined with the looming sovereign debt crisis, the nation's existence was at stake, acknowledging short-term problems from the administration's approach but comparing it to necessary medicine that might be unpleasant to take but was critically important for national survival at an annual hearing by the House Ways and Means Committee on the Trump Administration's trade agenda.