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Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!)
Trump wrote Sunday morning in all-caps on his Truth Social media platform
The 'Tariff Lobby,' headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify... the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS."
Trump clapped back on Sunday, sayingTherefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State,
he wrote on Truth Social, claimingAmerican consumers will feel the bite of higher costs for some goods."
On Friday, the right-leaning editorial board of the Wall Street Journal newspaper blasted Trump's tariffs in a piece titled "The Dumbest Trade War in History," saying
THOSE DAYS ARE OVER!"
said Trump, who began his Sunday with a visit to one of his golf courses in FloridaMr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the US shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home
The WSJ board wrote
Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense,
the WSJ board wroteWe allow them to take lumber
Last month, Trump said of Canada specificallyWE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID,
Trump wrote
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We don’t want to be here.”
Already, Canada and Mexico have moved to retaliate — reluctantly, in the case of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said during a somber address from Ottawa late SaturdayThe USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China (and almost all countries!), owes 36 Trillion Dollars, and we’re not going to be the ‘Stupid Country’ any longer,
he wroteWithout this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country,
Trump claimed, referring to what he called "hundreds of billions of dollars" in subsidies paid by the US to Canada
If the president is going abuse this power to bully and coerce our allies, Congress should take this authority back,
Coons said in a statement
The imposition of tariffs is unprecedented, won’t solve these problems and will only raise prices for American families and upend supply chains,
the chamber’s John Murphy told CNN
He’s using American workers as pawns in his petty political games. If a president promised that they’d help my family get by, and then they did this, I’d be pretty pissed off. So, you should be pissed off,
Martin said in a statementI respectfully disagree with Hakeem on his approach, this 'we're gonna fight, we're gonna fight.' We're going to try to make common sense to how we work together. That’s what they should be talking about,
Manchin said
So let’s start talking about, 'I disagree respectfully. This is a better way, maybe try this.' But meet him halfway. And when not, just don’t vote for if you can’t,
Manchin went onWhile President Trump remains focused on uniting our country and delivering the mandate set by the American people, the House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, incites violence calling for people to fight ‘in the streets’ against President Trump’s agenda,
Desai said in a statement
If prices go up, it’s because of other people’s reactions to America’s laws,
his homeland secretary, Kristi Noem, said on NBC's “Meet the Press.”
Inflation might go up over the next nine months by as much ... as 1 percent, just at a moment when we were trying to bring it down,
he told CNN's “Inside Politics.”