White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Sunday he was hopeful a dispute with Canada over accusations of the deadly fentanyl opioid entering the U.S. across its northern border could be resolved by the end of March.
His comments on ABC News’s “This Week” raise the possibility that tariffs due to be reimposed by U.S. President Donald Trump at the end of the month could be stayed further.
In reality, Canada is responsible for a minuscule proportion of drug smuggling into the United States and it wasn’t immediately clear what progress Hassett was referring to.
Democratic U.S. Senator Adam Schiff from California, who appeared after Hassett on ABC, called the adviser’s comments “incomprehensible.”
How did Canada, or "Trudeau"as you put it, cave? We put in place retaliatory tariffs and trump caved, as far as I can tell
Weeks ago…
When trump tried to divide them, Trudeau tried to play ball.
That’s why trump stopped talking about Mexico and attacked Canada. Eventually leading to Canada putting in place retaliatory tariffs…
If they’d have stood with Mexico since January, it wouldn’t have gotten to this point.
It’s like a drunk driver celebrating they survived the crash, you could have just never put yourself in that position in the first place buddy