{"id":32250,"date":"2025-02-03T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/mitch-mcconnell-calls-trump-tariffs-bad-idea-but-most-republicans-toe-line\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:29:40","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-calls-trump-tariffs-bad-idea-but-most-republicans-toe-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/mitch-mcconnell-calls-trump-tariffs-bad-idea-but-most-republicans-toe-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell calls Trump tariffs \u2018bad idea\u2019 but most Republicans toe line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Senate majority leader is one of few party members to criticize president\u2019s trade war with US neighbors and China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/03\/donald-trump-trade-tariffs-eu-mexico-canada-china-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Republicans on Capitol Hill have largely fallen in line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s move to impose tariffs on the US\u2019s biggest trading partners, with the notable exception of the former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, who called it a \u201cbad idea\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>With even Trump admitting that the tariffs \u2013 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on China \u2013 might cause \u201csome pain\u201d, there was mostly strong support from the president\u2019s loyalists. Jason Smith, chair of the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/01\/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-00201953\">said<\/a> the tariffs would \u201csend a powerful message that the United States will no longer stand by as other nations fail to halt the flow of illegal drugs and immigrants into our country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/03\/trump-tariffs-mitch-mcconnell\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Senate majority leader is one of few party members to criticize president\u2019s trade war with US neighbors and China US politics live \u2013 latest updates Republicans on Capitol Hill have largely fallen in line with Donald Trump\u2019s move to impose tariffs on the US\u2019s biggest trading partners, with the notable exception of the former Senate &#8230; <a title=\"Mitch McConnell calls Trump tariffs \u2018bad idea\u2019 but most Republicans toe line\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/mitch-mcconnell-calls-trump-tariffs-bad-idea-but-most-republicans-toe-line\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mitch McConnell calls Trump tariffs \u2018bad idea\u2019 but most Republicans toe line\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}