{"id":78096,"date":"2026-08-31T05:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/house-democrat-to-launch-challenge-to-trumps-lake-america-order-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T05:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:55:31","slug":"house-democrat-to-launch-challenge-to-trumps-lake-america-order-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/house-democrat-to-launch-challenge-to-trumps-lake-america-order-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat to launch challenge to Trump\u2019s \u2018Lake America\u2019 order \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Dingell plans to introduce her \u2018Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act\u2019 today following president\u2019s latest escalation in US-Canada trade war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/30\/canada-trump-lake-ontario-name\">Canada erects giant \u2018Lake Ontario\u2019 sign as spat with Trump over name escalates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for US Breaking News emails<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Having reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/16\/business\/economy\/jamieson-greer-trump-trade.html\">read<\/a> Victor Hugo\u2019s Les Mis\u00e9rables, in French, during a military tour of duty in Iraq, Jamieson Greer considered himself an unlikely target for accusations of francophobia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But Donald Trump\u2019s US trade representative, hitherto one of the president\u2019s less high-profile cabinet members, found himself in that uncomfortable position amid the acrimonious collapse of bilateral trade talks with Canada that now threatens to degenerate into an all-out trade war between the two close trading partners whose economies are tightly intertwined.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/31\/donald-trump-lake-america-ontario-canada-trade-war-tariffs-jd-vance-g20-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Dingell plans to introduce her \u2018Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act\u2019 today following president\u2019s latest escalation in US-Canada trade war Canada erects giant \u2018Lake Ontario\u2019 sign as spat with Trump over name escalates Sign up for US Breaking News emails Having reportedly read Victor Hugo\u2019s Les Mis\u00e9rables, in French, during a military tour of &#8230; <a title=\"House Democrat to launch challenge to Trump\u2019s \u2018Lake America\u2019 order \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/house-democrat-to-launch-challenge-to-trumps-lake-america-order-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about House Democrat to launch challenge to Trump\u2019s \u2018Lake America\u2019 order \u2013 US politics live\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78096","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=78096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}