US Senator McConnell says that Trump tariffs will remain in place

President Trump intends to put tariffs on all steel products entering the United States from outside of Mexico and Canada, in order to protect the jobs of thousands of workers across the country in the steel industry, who voted for Trump in the hope that their jobs would come back/stay in America. Mitch McConnell, establishment republican and Senate Majority Leader, has told reporters that the Senate will NOT stop the tariffs from being implemented. “The administration has all control. The thought that the president would sign a bill that would undo actions he’s taken strikes me as remote at best,” McConnell told reporters. “I think it’s highly unlikely we’d be dealing with that in a legislative way. That is not to say there is not a lot of concern in the Republican conference about this issue of tariffs.” This will come as a relief to the President, after many republicans have spoken against the implementation of such tariffs.

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