Republikaanit vaikuttavat syvästi järkyttyneiltä.
Joko syntyy repeämiä puolueeseen:
Sen.
Ben Sasse, R-Neb., called Trump's decision Thursday "dumb" and said "you don't treat allies the same way you treat opponents."
"Let's be clear: The President is proposing a massive tax increase on American families. Protectionism is weak, not strong," he said in a statement. "You'd expect a policy this bad from a leftist administration, not a supposedly Republican one."
Sen.
Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., also tweeted "this is no way to treat our allies, Mr. President."
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said the tariffs would be a "huge job-killing tax hike."
Sen. Orrin Hatch told reporters he didn't believe in tariffs and warned it could create more conflict for the US.
"First of all, I don't believe in tariffs," he said. "They don't work very well. Secondly, it creates tariff wars and I just don't think that's the way to go."
On the House side, Speaker Paul Ryan, through his spokesman, released a statement requesting that the administration reassess the decision for the tariffs.
"The speaker is hoping the president will consider the unintended consequences of this idea and look at other approaches before moving forward,"
Yllättäen Venäjä,joka on nopeasti noussut 5.suurimmaksi teräksen viejäksi Yhdysvaltoihin,ei kuulu tariffien piiriin. Toisin kuin 3 edellä olevaa kauppakumppania.