Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., wants his colleagues to vote against a Democrat-sponsored resolution that would undo President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on Canadian imports, The Hill reported.
Thune believes the tariffs are necessary to help with the nation’s fentanyl crisis and that ending the emergency order would incentive drug cartels to smuggle in drugs through the Canadian border, according to the Hill.
“If we’re serious about ending the fentanyl crisis in America, we need to address the entirety of the crisis. We’re not going to solve the problem by going after just part of it,” Thune said Tuesday on the Senate floor.
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