The far-right think tank, the Heritage Foundation, promoted a video on Wednesday of its economist E.J. Antoni, who agreed with President Donald Trump's position that tariffs are good.
In his first term, Trump signed new trade deals with Canada and Mexico but has decided to increase tariffs on imports from those countries. As CBS News explained last month, Trump appears to believe that tariffs are passed on to the country to pay.
PBS wrote in a fact-check that most economists, on both sides of the aisle, disagree with this assessment and believe it will hurt Americans most.
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The Heritage Foundation was one of the right-wing groups that disagreed with tariffs until Antoni's comments were posted.
As CNN's Andy Kaczynski noticed, four Heritage Foundation posts attacking tariffs were on the group's website. According to the Internet Way Back Machine, one of those posts was deleted on Thursday.
"Tariffs Are Never a Good Idea. Those on Aluminum Are Especially Bad," wrote Heritage Foundation researchers for the website in 2021. A Feb. 26, 2025, capture of the website (here) shows the post was still live. A March 6 capture of the site (here) shows it's gone.
See Kaczynski's screen captures of Heritage Foundation posts opposing tariffs below.