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<\/p>\nRepublican members of Congress are publicly backing U.S. President Donald Trump in his trade war with Canada and blaming Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government for walking away from negotiations.<\/p>\n
Dozens of GOP House members gathered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a closed-door meeting with Trump’s point man on tariffs, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.<\/p>\n
While some Republicans are quietly concerned that an escalation of costly tariffs could worsen their re-election prospects in the midterms in November, those who spoke with CBC News after meeting Greer generally expressed support for the president’s trade strategy.<\/p>\n
Texas Republican August Pfluger praised Trump for bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. and pinned blame for the trade war on Ottawa.<\/p>\n
“It’s a war that is perpetuated by Canada,” Pfluger told CBC News. “The Canadians need to get reasonable. They’ve taken advantage of the United States for a long time.”<\/p>\n
Brian Mast, a five-term Congressman from Florida, also criticized Canada for the breakdown in trade talks.<\/p>\n
“They were given the best possible deal, more generous than anybody else across the globe, and it’s something that they turned their back on,” Mast told CBC News.<\/p>\n
When Greer emerged from the meeting, he did not respond to reporters’ questions about the state of negotiations with Canada.<\/p>\n
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Republicans lawmakers who spoke to reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday largely backed U.S. President Donald Trump on his approach to the trade war with Canada. (Mariam Zuhaib\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n
Trump criticizes Canada’s banking policy<\/p>\n
Meanwhile at the White House, Trump gave no sign of shifting his position that Canada has long taken advantage of the U.S. on trade.<\/p>\n
Trump told reporters that one of his biggest grievances against Canada is the limits it puts on U.S. bank operations north of the border.<\/p>\n
“They basically don’t allow banks of America to be in Canada, that’s sort of emblematic of the way they treat us,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“Canada has all of its major banks here, and we’re their biggest source of income, far bigger than they are in Canada,” he said.<\/p>\n
On Capitol Hill, the sole Republican who raised concerns about the impact of the trade war on voters was Ralph Norman, who represents a South Carolina district.<\/p>\n
“What I hear in South Carolina is affordability,” said Norman. “It all goes into affordability, whether it’s this [trade war with Canada], whether it’s tariffs, whether it’s housing, gas.”<\/p>\n
He says Greer expressed willingness to address how tariffs are affecting each state.<\/p>\n
“The concerns, they were real,” Norman said. “I think the White House will be listening.”<\/p>\n
Although polling suggests Trump’s tariffs are deeply unpopular, other Congressional Republicans lined up to defend the president’s trade war with Canada, in some cases repeating his arguments almost word-for-word.<\/p>\n
Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison said it would not be a smart move for Canada to levy counter-tariffs on U.S. exports, as Carney has threatened to do next week.<\/p>\n
“We’re the economic powerhouse obviously compared to [Canada],” Burlison said. “I think Canada needs the United States more than we need them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican members of Congress are publicly backing U.S. President Donald Trump in his trade war with Canada and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[17,60787,58671,8855,16110,111,60786,60788,45291,28,2878],"class_list":["post-193587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-canada","tag-capitol-hill","tag-cbc-news","tag-greer","tag-its","tag-mark-carney","tag-norman","tag-norman-it","tag-republican","tag-trump","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}