Showing posts with label tariffs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tariffs. Show all posts

Saturday, October 31, 2026

Trump tried not to roil the economy before midterms. He's about to be unleashed. - POLITICO

Trump still wants to bring tariffs close to where they stood before the Supreme Court struck down a broad swath of them in February, according to nine current and former officials, congressional aides and industry representatives. He has teed up trade measures that could lead to new duties in the weeks after the election. The Pentagon, meanwhile, has been sending more forces to the Middle East, and Trump has been hinting that more action is coming in Iran. 

Republican and industry officials don’t believe the president is going to slow his agenda because of a poor showing by his party in the midterms. If anything, he may speed it up…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/30/folks-are-nervous-congress-and-k-st-expect-trump-to-come-out-firing-after-midterms-01141293


 

Saturday, October 24, 2026

US renews push for EU to soften Big Tech rules – POLITICO

Washington is again linking tariff relief for European steel exports to a demand that Brussels go easy on enforcing the Digital Markets Act…

 https://www.politico.eu/article/us-renews-push-for-eu-to-soften-big-tech-rules/


 

Trump to lower Canada tariffs for certain agricultural goods, Collins says - POLITICO

“Mainers needed help long before Susan Collins needed saving. But apparently, families struggling to pay their bills wasn’t enough of an emergency. Her losing her job is,” Jackson wrote in a post on X. “We deserve a Senator who stands up to Trump—not one who rubber-stamps his agenda and begs for relief from the chaos she helped create.”…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/23/collins-trump-canada-tariffs-maine-agriculture-01134028 


 

Democrats face crack-up on Trump’s tariffs - POLITICO

The central point of tension, according to interviews with nine current and former Democratic officials, is whether the party should continue to embrace some tariffs to boost manufacturing or seek to lower them across the board as a way to cut costs for consumers and businesses…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/23/democrats-trade-tariffs-trump-2028-01132440 


Friday, October 23, 2026

Farm country has beef with Trump as midterms approach : NPR

Ground beef currently costs around $6.80 a pound – a fact of which the Trump administration is keenly aware. But the administration's attempts to bring those prices down have backfired politically and possibly economically…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/10/22/nx-s1-6011214/farm-country-has-beef-with-trump-as-midterms-approach


Wednesday, September 9, 2026

What to know about Canada's escalating trade war with the U.S. : NPR

Canada says its tariffs match Washington's dollar for dollar and rate for rate. They take effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday under an executive action known as an order in council and cover about $20 billion in American goods, roughly 6% of the $333.6 billion the United States exported to Canada last year. 

RBC Economics, the research arm of the Royal Bank of Canada, said the measures were unlikely to dent U.S. growth overall but could hit some businesses hard...

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/08/nx-s1-5960990/canada-escalating-trade-war-us  


 

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Canada turns its critical minerals into leverage against Trump - POLITICO

“Nothing would make me happier than when the United States asks us for more electricity to say, ‘You know what, we’ve got a lot of mines we need to develop in northern British Columbia,’” Hodgson said. 

“Nothing would make me happier than just saying, ‘You know what, we’re going to use all our electricity here. We’re going to build new mines, new processing facilities.’”

 Although Trump keeps insisting otherwise, the U.S. relies heavily on Canadian resources…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/05/canada-turns-its-critical-minerals-into-leverage-against-trump-01065104 


Carney says Canada moving from U.S. reliance as tariffs take effect | PBS News

"In too many areas, they wanted dependency, not a true economic partnership," Carney said in a prerecorded video outlining his government's plan to withstand the trade war. The prime minister said four decades of deeper economic integration had left Canada too reliant on the U.S...

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/carney-says-canada-moving-from-u-s-reliance-as-tariffs-take-effect 


You’re paying a $4K TRUMP TARIFF TAX

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fEPzvxnTgEA

 

Sunday, August 30, 2026

Detroit despairs as ‘insanity’ of Trump’s Canada trade war punishes city

By a 63%-31% margin, residents here oppose tariffs on Canadian goods, according to a June Epic-MRA poll, including 35% of Republicans. Meanwhile, nearly 75% of Michiganders said the tariffs are fueling high prices… 

Regardless, Michiganders have already suffered disproportionately as they pay on average over $3,200 annually for tariffs, or about 142% more than the rest of the country, because of the state’s shared border with Canada…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/trump-canada-trade-war-detroit-michigan


 

This is sheep behavior. #democrats #isaiahmartin #debate

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0r4mmdLgetw

 

Purely brainless policy. #isaiahmartin #debate #democrats

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nROM3965iXY








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