Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, vowed to talk with President Donald Trump to offer exemptions to his sweeping tariffs on foreign imports “to make sure that businesses can survive.”
Johnson’s appearance Thursday on “PBS NewsHour” came amid many Republican lawmakers expressing concern regarding Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs announced Wednesday. Trump imposed a baseline 10% tariff on all imported goods starting Saturday, with higher individualized reciprocal tariffs on countries with which the U.S. has the largest trade deficits.
Canada and Mexico were exempt from the “Liberation Day” tariffs because they had been hit by levies as pressure to prevent illegal immigration and the trafficking of fentanyl into the U.S. But four GOP senators joined Democrats to pass a resolution Wednesday to end Trump’s emergency declaration on fentanyl that underpinned the tariffs on Canada.
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