The Senate votes if he has to reverse Trump’s prices on Canada

Washington (AP)-with the so-called the so-called “Liberation Day” of the implementation of prices Approaching quickly, the Senate Democrats put republican support to some of these plans to the test by forcing a vote to cancel the emergency declaration underlying the prices on Canada.

The Republicans have looked with a little trouble that the president’s attempts to redo world trade have sent the stock market down, but they have so far supported Trump threats To take taxes from imported goods.

Even if the resolution of the Democratic Senator Tim Kaine of Virginie offered them a potential ramp at the prices taken from Canadian imports, republican leaders were trying to keep senators online by focusing on the fentanyl that enters the United States during its northern border. It was still another example of the way Trump reorients the world economy not only, but the reversal of his party’s long-standing support for ideas like free trade.

“I really enjoyed giving my Republican colleagues the opportunity to not only say that they are concerned, but to take a measure to stop these prices,” Kaine told the Associated Press in an interview last week.

Kaine’s resolution would end the emergency declaration that Trump signed in February to implement Canada prices as a punishment for not having done enough to stop the flow of illegal drugs in the United States if the Senate adopts the resolution, it would always be necessary to be taken up by the House of the Republican.

A small fraction of the fentanyl that enters the United States between Canada. Customs and border protection seized 43 pounds of fentanyl on the northern border during the year 2024, and since January, the authorities have seized less than 1.5 pounds, according to federal data. Meanwhile, on the southern border, the authorities seized more than 21,000 pounds last year.

Kaine warned that the prices on Canadian goods would wave in the economy, which makes him more expensive to build military houses and ships.

“We will pay more for our food products. We will pay more for the construction of supplies,” he said. “Thus, people are already complaining about the prices of the grocery store and housing that cost too much. You therefore increase the cost of supplies and construction products. It’s a big problem. “

However, Trump said that the amount of fentany from Canada is “massive” and is committed to pursuing prices on Wednesday.

“There will never have been any transformation of a country such as the transformation that occurs, so that everyone can see, in the United States of America,” said the president on social networks on Monday.

The Republican leaders of the Senate reported that they are not exactly prices fans, but argued that Trump uses them as a negotiation tool.

“I support the use of prices so as to achieve a specific objective, in this case, ending drug trafficking,” said the head of the majority of the Senate last month, John Thune, Rs.d. He said this week that “his advice remains the same”.

While Trump’s relatives of Trump in the Senate were held firmly by the idea of ​​redoing the American economy through prices, others began to openly express their dissatisfaction with the commercial wars that could disturb industries and increase prices on cars, grocery, housing and other goods.

“I keep closely all these prices because the first people who are injured in a trade war are your farmers and breeders,” said senator Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana.

Senator John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, said that he would prefer to see the United States and his business partners to move to withdraw all prices on each other, but he conceded that Trump’s pricing threats had injected uncertainty into the global markets.

“We are in unexplored waters,” Kennedy told journalists. “No one knows what the impact of these prices will be.”