Trump Rebuked Over Canada Tariffs as Midterm Anxieties Grow

[lostincalifornia]

Donald Trump’s tariff policies suffered their strongest political blow yet with the Republican-led US House passing legislation aimed at ending the president’s levies on Canadian imports.

Wednesday’s vote represents an increase in political pressure to change course on Trump’s signature economic policy just months before the midterm elections, including by forcing swing-district Republicans affected by the tariffs to weigh when or if to cross the president by voting against his agenda.

The vote also signals a growing anxiety over the White House’s economic agenda before elections that are expected to focus heavily on affordability. Democrats were quick to attack the Republicans who voted to protect the tariffs, blaming them for shielding policies that increase the cost of living for their voters.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/us-house-defies-trump-and-votes-to-end-his-canada-tariffs?srnd=homepage-americas


This is just political posturing by the rethugs in Congress. The reality is that even if the Senate follows suit, the sociopath in the white house will most likely veto it, and those republicans will of course push the false narrative to their constituents who are being hurt by trumps Canadian tariffs, "see we tried to help you with the tariffs", when the reality is they are a day late and a dollar short. The moment trump took the power to levy tariffs away from congress, was when those cowardly, inept republican legislators should have pushed back. The question is will their constituents wake up and realize what they are trying to pull?