The unprecedented movement of the president of the United States to attract the closest neighbors in the United States to a commercial war has left some republican legislators who precariously sail how to support the leader's tariff agenda while their local economies prepare for the impact for the impact .
Many Republicans, trapped between risking the anger of the president and facing a violent reaction of the constituents concerned about the increase in costs, remained silent about the harmful tasks, which will be deployed on Tuesday. Others left out loud.
“Canada must come to the table,” Kristi Noem, former governor of South Dakota and new head of the NBC News National Security Department, said Sunday.
“They must work with us to make sure that we can not only be good neighbors, but we can help the economies of others queue.”
Trump signed the executive orders on Saturday to hit the imports of Canada and Mexico with harmful tariffs that amount to 10 percent of Canadian energy and 25 percent in everything else.
Canada and Mexico quickly announced their intention to go back, despite the fact that the order includes a retaliation clause that says that if countries respond with the duties of US products, taxes could be increased.
The president has linked the tariffs with what he calls the illegal flow of people and fentanil through the border. Customs and border protection statistics in the United States show that less than one percent of all the fentanyl seized in the United States comes from the northern border.
Trump extended a previous emergency statement on the southern border to the north and issued tariffs through the International Law of Economic Emergency Powers (IEEPA). No president has used IEEPA for rates and remains to be seen if the order will survive the legal challenges.
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The Executive Order establishes that Noem will tell the President if Canada has done enough to relieve the “public health crisis through cooperative compliance actions” to lift tariffs. It does not say what measures would be enough.
Many experts say that the encumbrances are more likely to be part of the Trump plan to fill the federal coffers through an extensive tariff agenda, while shaking Canada and Mexico before a mandatory review of the Canada-Mexico Agreement.
The Canadian ministers had gone by bicycle for Washington in recent weeks, meeting with Republican legislators and members of the Trump team in a last effort to stop homework. The ministers met Friday with Tom Homan, Trump's border tsar, to discuss the border security plan of $ 1.3 billion of Canada, implemented to appease the president's concerns.
During an interview in Fox News on Sunday, Homan said he had not shared the details of that presentation with the president and did not evaluate whether to be enough to lift tariffs.
“I will inform it at the meeting I had, but that is the president's decision,” said Homan. “I don't want to get ahead of him, but I will inform him about what I heard … so that he knows what they have done, what they said they will do.”
Republicans in support of the president's prerogative tariff repeated the president's border security claims, despite the generalized concerns that duties fell inflation and increase the costs for Americans.
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be “careful” by imposing retaliation rates.
“Texas's economy is larger than Canada's. And we are not afraid to use it, ”Abbott published on social networks on Saturday.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, praised Trump's tariffs on social networks, despite saying that last week he did not believe that the homework happened.
Many look for another key figure to intervene. The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, has repeatedly said that he has not supported the rates through the board and has warned that they lead to greater inflation. South Dakota's republican state could be beaten by tariffs.
The largest market in Dakota del Sur is Canada, which represents 44 percent of the total exported goods of the agricultural state. It also imports USD $ 686 million in Canada's goods annually, including fertilizers and machinery. Mexico is the second largest market in the State.
While many Republicans were still a mother, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was among the exceptions. He published on social networks that “tariffs are simply taxes.”
“The conservatives once joined new taxes. Fiscal trade will mean less trade and higher prices, ”said Paul.
Don Bacon, a Congressman from Nebraska, was careful not to criticize the president while expressing confusion why Canada was being dragged into a commercial war. CNN Saturday, Bacon said Trump likes to use tariffs as a tool to negotiate trade agreements.
“With Canada we already have a commercial agreement and it was a good commercial agreement,” Bacon said. “And that is difficult for me to square that circle because we have already negotiated a deal with them about this.”
He suggested that Trump focused on China and Russia, added that “they are our adversaries and China does illegal commercial practices.”
The Democrats widely condemned Trump's tariffs, criticizing the president for campaigning in affordability while taking actions that probably increase costs.
“You are worried about the prices of the groceries. Don is increasing prices with his tariffs, ”said Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer, on social networks.
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