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It's hard to know what more we can do, but we're obviously open to any other suggestions that come our way,
Canada's ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman told ABC News on Sunday Inflation might go up over the next nine months by as much ... as 1%, just at a moment when we were trying to bring it down,
he told CNN's “Inside Politics.” We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use.”
Trump railed against Canada's trade surplus with the United States Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!)
Trump wrote Sunday morning in all-caps on his Truth Social media platform Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State,
he wrote on Truth Social, claiming 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, saying American 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 The 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,
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 Saturday If prices go up, it's because of other people's reactions to America's laws."
It worked the first time when he was in office, we didn't see inflation, we saw wage growth, and we saw more onshoring of jobs back here in the United States,
What we have sent a message this week on is that we're not just going to enforce our southern border. We're going to put extra resources at that northern border as well. So Canada needs to come to the table,
Noem said during an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press." It's going to hurt American families. They're going to see prices go up for food, for energy, for electronics, I think you mentioned that for, for autos. This is not the way to handle this."
Economically, yes, they will, they will feel pain. They will feel what the consequences are, and we'll be able to continue to go forward with the president, who is strong, who is putting America first."
In an interview Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, saying Kristen, we're talking about two different things here,
he told Welker later in the program The fact is, these countries are taking advantage of us all along the while we've got fentanyl streaming into our country. So Mexico has a choice. They can choose to trade with the United States or continue to cozy up with the cartels. It's pretty simple."
Without 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 The President is right to focus on major problems like our broken border and the scourge of fentanyl, but the imposition of tariffs under IEEPA is unprecedented, won’t solve these problems, and will only raise prices for American families and upend supply chains.”
The group’s senior vice-president John Murphy said THOSE DAYS ARE OVER!”
Trump continues in the screed Mr 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,
