“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.
Trump was a Democrat for most of his adult life. Trump does not support free trade, or free markets. What Trump does support are massive sales taxes disguised as tariffs. There is now a 40 percent sales tax on Canadian lumber.
Trump has filed for bankruptcy six times, so he’s not a competent business person. I’m in business, and I’ve never screwed a vendor, never filed for bankruptcy.
Trump’s incompetence is on full display, as USMCA is the trade deal Trump negotiated with Canada to replace NAFTA. So now Trump doesn’t like his own trade deal? More incompetence. Or… is this really all about fentanyl, which Trump has declared? Canada is law abiding, and only a tiny bit of this drug comes from Canada.
These tariffs are inflationary, they are roiling the markets, and the last thing we need right now are higher costs from idiot Republicans and idiot Democrats.
You make a lot of erroneous assumptions.
Manda, let’s “assume” you know what your talking about so please elaborate on where you believe M is in error here.
M frequently parrots the Democratic Party line while claiming to be conservative. M also simply disregards facts at will even when repeatedly given said facts. Take for example the failed Democratic talking point about USMCA, the goods that are having tariffs added are those that are outside the USMCA which happens to be a majority of imported goods from these neighboring countries.
When a person is repeatedly given correct information but refuses to accept it, ignorance is no longer an excuse.
I guess you wasted that degree in economics. Do you think we should pay higher tariffs to foreign countries than they pay here? How does the amount to fair trade or free markets? Also, as for his incompetence, I notice you have not been elected to the presidency, and you are probably not wealthy enough to give up your salary to charity, either. Quit grumbling while Trump rebuilds all of our financial futures, it doesn’t become you.
Tamra, this Senate resolution (that just passed) applies to Canada. You are confusing our trade dispute with Canada with the other nations where there are indeed, reforms required.
I’ll repeat, the current trade deal with Canada is the one that Trump wanted. Trump’s insane rhetoric about doing this because he wants Canada to be the 51st state is…unhinged. Canada is more liberal than we are. If Canada were the 51st state, we’d have Harris in the White House. Is that what you want?
“Do you think we should pay higher tariffs to foreign countries than they pay here?”
Consumers pay the tarriff for the good purchased. US Citizens do not pay the tarriff in foreign countries. Effectively a tarriff is a tax placed on foreign goods to raise the price of that good making native products more attractive to the consumer.
He is accurate djt did orchestrated USMCA. Therefore it does call into question djt’s decision making skills. Like sleeping with that worn out porn star or any other affairs Marla Maples for instance. Or his lawyer he had for decades, Michael Cohen.
I hope djt is successful but he clearly has shown he is willing to make poor decisions.
You forget to call him a felon. Has the script changed?
And M forgot to mention that Trump is LITERALLY Hitler!
(that one never gets old.)
He claims he’s a great businessman, but won’t show his tax returns. He claims he’s a genius, but won’t show his grades or SAT scores. He claims he’s innocent, but won’t answer questions under oath. If you don’t see Trump for the lying fraud he is, you’re blind.
Whidbey, Actually, tax returns have little to do with being a successful businessman. It more likely shows how well your accountant/CPA can use the current complicated tax laws to avoid paying taxes. Remember, President Trump during his first term donated his entire presidential salary to charity. Not sure any other president has done that. I do think that President Biden contributed his salary to Burisma and the Ukraine oligarchs!
And grades and SAT scores have also very little to do with being a genius. Some of our smartest minds today dropped out of college.
I expected no less from Murkowski, she has got to go.
Call her office tell her to support our Leader which 77million people voted for. She was elected as a Republican act like one and support Trump!! Or she can get off the pot and lose her election. The Majority of Alaska will nor reelect you
DOGE Needs to look into Murkowski income, She is the biggest pile of s… I have ever seen represent Alaska’s Republican party
She needs to go away.
A RINO for sure.
The deep state’s senators will never what’s best for our republic and people. There goal is to keep the Washington DC sewer establishment revelant. I didn’t know Rand Paul was a deep state kind of guy.
There’s nothing strange about Princess Pork siding with Democrats.
Where has the censure of Murkowski gone? Alaska GOP pit her in for censorship along with a few other Republicans. Not even a whisper from the chairman.
She showered some praise on Cory Booker, one of her fellow bug-eyed and crazy colleagues, for his recent filibuster effort in the Senate.
Hardest part for me to accept is that God is using her for some purpose, whether she or I, like it. Be that as it may, I don’t think he favors her abortive tendencies.
I am a bit surprised that Republicans in the US Senate have not started to ask what, if any, benefits they receive from allowing Senator Murkowski to caucus with them. She has a super-plum seat on the Senate Appropriations Committee and funnels millions, if not billions, of Federal appropriations to her favored and fashionable supporters in Alaska. (IMO, very few of those dollars benefit the average Alaskan.)
If she does not support the caucus, why should the caucus support and reward her?
That that’s easy.
For decades now when the repub party wanted the benefits of a dem bill but not the blame, Don Young, plus Dan, Lisa and others before them, would simply vote with the dems to get the bill passed. Repubs could whine and moan while ensuring their cut of the pie.
When you keep siding with the enemy, we identify you as the enemy.
Murkowski and Rand Paul oppose this for very different reasons.
Murky simply has a terminal case of TDS. Doubt she could be cured.
Agreed
She’s been in bed with this lot for years, probably should have been titled “Old bedfellows”
I’ve written Murkowski a number of times. She doesn’t seem to have very good reading comprehension as evidenced by her replies, when she bothers to reply.
Same
COMPLETELY CONCUR!
Wrote her snail mail once about parental rights and her response was about her reelection efforts.
Tone
Deaf
Is it possible for the people of Alaska to recall Murky? No confidence? Not Alaska driven decisions?
Do a special election?
I wish.
Recall Dan too
cookies, please
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Lisa a coward, same as her dad. All she does is bring back pork that doesn’t exactly help your average Alaskan, but she sure likes being called Madam Senator.
Rex Tillerson was right.
This miserable excuse for a human being should never have been placed into her daddy’s office. She doesn’t work for rhw people of Alaska.
What a pathetic woman she is!! A Wolf in sheep’s clothing!! She is disgusting to say the least!!!
None of this surprises me about Lisa, because Frankly, I consider Lisa my own strange bedfellow.
The title is misleading. You meant “Trump sides with Democrats (pre 2016 of course)
Tariffs are not a conservative principle.
McConnell’s wife is Chinese. She’s the daughter of a Chinese billionaire tycoon who made money on the shipping industry. Her name is Elaine Chao. She was George W. Bush’s US Secretary of Labor. Follow the money.
Anyone really believe she can park that TDS and start working for Alaska and Alaskans, something like NB3 is doing? Yep, I didn’t think so either! She’s a lost cause!
Murkowski for prison. The politicians screaming the loudest are the most guilty.
You’re a traitor Lisa. Resign.
“…….Strange bedfellows: Murkowski sides with Democrats……..”
Huh? What’s so strange about that?
Let the good Senator Murkowski know your thoughts here:
https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact/email
“Murkowski sides with Democrats”
In other news, grass is green and water is wet.
HELLO… Can you say RINOs?
As usual Rand is right…
“Trade has made us so rich and really has made the world a better place. The more we trade … the less we fight.”
Tarriffs are a tax paid by the consumer. Tarriffs DO NOT reduce prices. In fact once a company knows consumers will pay X plus this tax, chances are they’ll raise their prices close to the tarriff price.
This is not ulike the knee jerk reaction to the lockdowns when djt signed into law the most fraudulent govt program ever, the Payment Protection Program.
Tarriffs will not replace the income tax nor will it generate anywhere near the amount of tax revenue necessary to pay off the $37t of debt, $7.8t djt added himself.
This will be interesting to watch and crappy to pay for. A negotiation tactic? Plausible.
Thank you Chris. Reading all the comments here I am shocked by how much conservatives have been “turned.” Actually, I am seriously unsure what conservatism is anymore. Tariffs were the rallying cry of the Democrats during the height of liberalism. Yet here we are. Who is who?
Resolutions are not bills, and they do not require the signature of the president. They do not have the force of law. They are simply send a symbolic message.