Republicans worry Trump's tariffs could harm economy

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

03/10/25 6:00 AM ET


Republican lawmakers are growing alarmed over signs that President Trump’s expanding trade war is hurting the economy, something they’re hearing from constituents at home who are struggling to adapt to Trump’s zigzagging tariff pronouncements. GOP lawmakers say they’re hearing from business owners, exporters, farmers and local leaders that Trump’s threat of steep tariffs against Canada, Mexico and Europe are chilling business sentiment in the United States.

Companies feel less confident about expanding operations and hiring new workers, given their uncertainty about the costs of imported goods and the potential loss of foreign markets over the next year. “The Canadian tariffs will definitely have a detrimental impact on the economy of Maine and on border communities in particular,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). “We have for example a major paper mill in Northern Maine right on the border that gets its pulp from Canada.”

“That mill alone, which is by far the biggest employer in the region, employs 510 people directly. I’ve talked to the owner of that mill, the imposition of a 25-percent tariff could be devastating,” she warned. Trump announced Thursday that he would pause 25-percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico until April 2, but Collins warned that the looming threat of high fees is having a chilling effect on her state’s economy.

“I think it freezes investment until they know exactly what the impact is going to be. So I understand the president’s desire to level the playing field, but Canada’s just not the problem in Maine,” she said, citing wood products, blueberries, lobsters and potatoes that go back-and-forth across the border as key drivers of the economy.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5183649-trump-trade-war-economic-impact/

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Susan Collins is "concerned".

[Lovie777]

1. Psycho world..................

republicans are surely crazy.

[Think. Again.]

2. Duh.

[Botany]

9. Just because the Metro Detroit, Michigan Region and the Metro Windsor, Ontario does $ 6 billion per year ...

… in trade across the international border there not to mention all the paychecks that are produced
on both sides too. BTW Canada is America’s biggest customer in the world. The value of the stuff
my poutine eating/pike fishing/hockey playing friends from the great north buys from America is
greater than all the purchases that China, the U.K. South Korea, France, Japan, and some other nations
buy from us. Also how much of the dimensional lumber (2x4s, 2x6s, and ….) that American home-
builders, contractors, farmers, citizens, and other businesses comes from Canada?

This is insane and it will wreck both Canada’s and our economy too. Or is that just Trump, Musk,
& Vlad’s goal?

[CrispyQ]

32. About all that lumber...they're just gonna raze the national parks.

Then develop them.

I am just sick.

[Botany]

43. Even if they let people cut in areas that were previously protected or haven't been cut yet you can't

….. just process those logs into lumber without some infrastructure around the tracts of timber
that are to harvested along with roads, drying operations, and lots of other things too. Once
again Krasnov is insane.

[Lokee11]

3. Republicans Worry...........

Putting a flame to gasoline may start a fire?!?!?!?!?!?

I cannot, just can't anymore - just -

[dutch777]

4. You want to hurt T et. al., boycott everything you can. Dinging the economy will be fastest way to curb them.

We are doing this by buying nothing that is not a necessity-- food, fuel, medical care only. And when we do buy, to the extent possible, use small and local businesses and ignore large national players. Sure, hard to get gasoline without helping Exxon or BP, but staying out of Target or at least minimizing what you buy there will send their sales down and that will get noticed quickly if done by enough of us. I think airlines and businesses along the border are already getting worried that Canadians will stay home in the travel season. Suspect we will see similar from other countries hitting US airline and other travel related businesses because of Trump policies and general stupidity.

[Think. Again.]

14. ⬆️⬆️⬆️THIS⬆️⬆️⬆️

The real power in America rests with the money.

If the major corporations start feeling some unpredictably to their profits from our economic boycotts, they will be sure to correct trump's ways.

[Bengus81]

48. I started doing that on Jan 20th. And a total economic blackout day a week or so ago

This is the ONLY thing they will understand.

[dutch777]

50. Agree. Best way to apply pressure until the next election.

[travelingthrulife]

5. Republicans could end this nightmare today.

They are all traitors.

[Think. Again.]

15. Yes, NAZI's are not fans of Democracies.

[wolfie001]

21. You can stop at Jeff Bozos

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He is the 'Prime' example. Oh, and behind the scenes, is Peter Thiel

[Think. Again.]

25. I don't believe thiel is closeted, he's married to a man...

...and I couldn't care less about that.

[wolfie001]

28. Yes. Thanks, I'll edit that

He's still a f__king pig though

[Think. Again.]

34. Yes, yes he is.

[atreides1]

30. For now...

...but the religious fanatics are working on how to take that right away from him and others!

It's kind of ironic that Thiel is married because of the work of Progressives and Democrats...and yet he's so hard up for power that he would jeopardize that right by supporting Trump!

[Think. Again.]

35. Typical republican hypocrisy....

...it's good for them but no one else.

[wolfie001]

39. 👆👆👆👆👆 This!!! 👆👆👆👆👆

All of this! He's in an inaccessible stronghold so he doesn't give a rat's ass about anyone else. Ultimate bad guy.

[tanyev]

6. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. If only Republican lawmakers had ways to check and balance him.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Gee, ya think?

the idiots never think anything through.

[TommieMommy]

8. Definitely will harm the economy. Job losses, businesses closing and everything costing more. Yep 😡

[wolfie001]

22. I predict a lot of fake numbers

The truth would cost the bearer of bad news their jobs.

[BattleRow]

46. Does anyone recall when Alan Greenspan admitted to Congress

that his view of free market deregulation was wrong?
On the heels of the 2008 housing market bubble, he stated..
"I have found a flaw.."
Ya think?

[Ocelot II]

10. Gosh, really?

[Diamond_Dog]

11. Did they just wake up and come out of their caves?

[JohnSJ]

12. It is more than tariffs that these rethug idiots should be concerned up. They have blessed every trump nominee with the

most incompetent clowns that have ever assumed office.

and for anyone thinking that the sociopath will reverse course, I wouldn't bet on it. If the past is any reflection of the future, the sociopath's stubbornness will not reverse course, but double down.

The clown licknick is laughing off any talk of a "recession". Yeah licknick, billionaires don't have to worry about recession. The reality is if these jackasses actually start cutting or getting rid of social security, medicare, and medicaid, it won't be recession that will be the concern, but depression.

[Bengus81]

13. Oh..you think you stupid shits??

You wanted this Fuehrer,you support this regime 100% as seen on TV. But now your "alarmed"?

[livetohike]

16. The GOP is always so late to the world of reality.

The Democratic Presidents always have to clean up after them. We need to blast the truth at them until they finally get it. Their handling of the economy does not work.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. "We need to blast the truth at them until they finally get it. "

We have been blasting the truth since Raygun, where even Poppy Bush called it "voodoo economics" -

They keep going back to it. Even David Stockman, who had created a lot of the mess of "supply side/trickle down" had to back off from it -

(from 2012)

[Bengus81]

49. They still don't care,their just worried about themselves and personal safety

[Turbineguy]

18. Another trump day in the equities markets.

[Zorro]

31. Defense stocks are doing great, though

[Yavin4]

19. Gee. If only these Republican lawmakers had some kind of power to stop Trump.

Oh well. What can you do?

[IronLionZion]

20. You don't say

The best and brightest minds in America are on it

[Fla Dem]

23. Ya Think!!

[turbinetree]

26. Yes she is concerned...............again.........

[Bev54]

27. But not concerned enough to actually do something about it.

His executive order is all bullshit and could be ripped apart in a minute by a 3rd grader.

[Walleye]

29. As long as Putin is happy, they are OK with it

[50 Shades Of Blue]

33. They worry more about Trump primarying them.

[republianmushroom]

36. Little to late to close that barn door,

the horse is done gone.

[NoMoreRepugs]

37. Worried? Wow, those are are some really razor sharp minds working hard to come up with that.

[NotHardly]

38. LOL... these idiots... heavy sigh.

[Torchlight]

40. The only US Pres that can make Hoover look positively competent.

As long as Pres. Degenerate is flinging bucket's of crap without aim, this 'friendly fire' will continue to frustrate more and more of the electorate in a very short amount of time.

[mwmisses4289]

41. Oh, look, more the leopard isn't supposed to eat my face idjits.

[ananda]

42. Could? It already is and is going to get worse.

...

[patphil]

44. Canada's just not the problem in Maine

Senator Collins: I understand the president’s desire to level the playing field, but Canada’s just not the problem in Maine.

Oh, so that's what Trump's doing...leveling the playing field?
Clever name for engaging in economic warfare against our northern neighbor, and largest foreign trade partner. It's always been a symbiotic relationship between us, and now he wants to wreck all that.
He wants to destabilize Canada and he somehow thinks that will make it easier for us to absorb them into the United States. That's not selling well with Canadians.
Personally, I wouldn't wish that on anyone right now. We're in the process of becoming a shit hole nation, as the Trump taint destroys all it touches.

And what's with the typical wishy-washy position by Senator Collins. Not the problem in Maine implies it is a problem in other states, but she only cares about Maine.
Fact is she only cares enough about anything to keep her seat in the Senate; not enough to actually stand for anything beyond that.
Maine deserves a better Senator than Susan Collins.

[Old Crank]

45. Cry me a river.

You supported this guy. You voted for this guy. You knew what he was like.

FAFO....

Too bad you are destroying other voter's lives who had the sense to not vote for the orange maggot.

[AllyCat]

47. No!?! Really???

Whooda thunk that? I wonder if any smart people said something about that before the election?

[republianmushroom]

51. Don't worry dudes he is a bankrupt genius.