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Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).
Four Republican senators, including McConnell, voted on Democrats on Wednesday to remove Trump’s 25% tariff on Canadian imports. Former Senate Minority Leader McConnell said he had long warned that tariffs were a bad idea.
“We will do a great job as Americans tighten their belts,” McConnell said in a statement Wednesday after the vote. “We should strengthen friendships abroad and strengthen our allies as pillars of America’s prosperity and security.”
McConnel was joined by Republicans Rand Paul (Kentucky), Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and voted to decide the resolution.
On another tariff deadline, this has brought an embarrassing blow to Trump, which he calls “Liberation Day.”
“On a global scale, the last thing we need is to fight with friends we should work with to prevent predatory and unfair trade practices in China,” McConnell’s statement said. “This includes what we do with trade.”
The senator voted against Trump after he announced that all imports would impose a 10% tariff on Trump.
In a post before the vote, Trump slammed McConnell and three other senators, saying they “hopefully” will join the Republican Party, fighting the “wild and blatant push” of Democrats and not punishing Canada.
The Trump administration is trying to frame tariffs from its northern neighbors as a means to combat fentanyl flow into the country.
McConnell has noticed the impact of Canadian tariffs on him in Kentucky as the company has pulled the bourbon used by Kentucky from Canadian shelves.
“In Kentucky, based on a wide range of tariffs can even have long-term consequences in our backyards,” his statement on Wednesday said. “Thinking about 69,000 family farms in our state that sell crops globally, or hard-working Kentuckians, these hard-working Kentuckians are 95% of the world’s bourbons, or the automotive and manufacturing industries we rely on global supply chains.”
McConnell continued: “There is no doubt that the manufactured goods will be more expensive for goods made in the United States, and ultimately, consumers buy at higher prices based on broad tariffs.”