“The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, in that it is not going anywhere because the House will never approve it and I, as your President, will never sign it.” – President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump has slapped back at Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and three other Republicans for their support for a resolution that opposes the Trump Administration’s attempt to balance trade by imposing tariffs on countries that impose tariffs on America. The ultimate goal is free trade, whereas right now the trade is massively unbalance.
“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. “They are playing with the lives of the American people, and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels.”
It’s a rare day when a libertarian-leaning conservative like Sen. Rand Paul and a left-leaning senator like Murkowski will see eye to eye. But it’s a case of “politics makes strange bedfellows.”
Democrats have proposed a resolution to bar Trump’s emergency declaration to impose tariffs on Canada and Sen. Rand Paul, of Kentucky said the nation’s free trade policies is what made America a superpower.
“International trade since World War II has made us phenomenally rich. President Trump paints it another way,” Paul said in a Sunday radio interview. “He says, ‘We’ve been taken advantage of.’ But I really strongly disagree because trade has made us so rich and really has made the world a better place. The more we trade … the less we fight.”
Also opposing the tariffs is Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who says it is a tax on families. It appears that between the few Republicans opposing Trump and all the Democrats in the Senate, the resolution to stop Trump’s emergency declaration could pass the Senate.
That wouldn’t stop him from just declaring another one, however. After all, the national debt is approaching $37 trillion.
President Donald Trump said April 2 would be “Liberation Day” in America, as he announced that America will have reciprocal tariffs on countries that apply tariffs to American goods.
Trump spoke directly to Alaskans in his TruthSocial comments.
The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, in that it is not going anywhere because the House will never approve it and I, as your President, will never sign it,” Trump wrote. “Why are they allowing Fentanyl to pour into our Country unchecked, and without penalty. What is wrong with them, other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly known as TDS? Who can want this to happen to our beautiful families, and why? To the people of the Great States of Kentucky, Alaska, and Maine, please contact these Senators and get them to FINALLY adhere to Republican Values and Ideals,” Trump wrote.
The Democrats are trying to drive a wedge of division through the Republican Party. The only way they can splinter is if the Republicans allow it. Sen. Murkowski is their target because of her predictability in going against nearly anything Trump does.
