Senate Majority Leader John Thune is lending crucial support for President Donald Trump’s ability to impose tariffs on Canada, citing the need to aid the administration’s fentanyl crackdown efforts.
Thune will urge senators to block a resolution offered by Democratic Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine seeking to terminate the president’s national emergency declaration justifying the president’s tariffs on Canadian imports — some of which are slated to go into effect Wednesday. The Senate GOP leader is expected to defend Trump’s emergency declaration mechanism as part of the administration’s broader efforts to stem the flow of fentanyl into the United States from Canada and Mexico, according to an excerpt of a speech Thune is expected to deliver later Tuesday, which was obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.