Press Releases

On Canada’s deceptive ad on tariffs featuring Ronald Reagan:

“In terms of particularly as deceptive as that as the ad was … President Reagan, as we know, was for free and fair trade and he was for standing up for America. And we want to continue that. 

“When you look at that ad, in general, it was deceptive the way Canada produced that ad and tried to highlight that. But that's not the first time they've really taken that approach. 

“When we were negotiating the original USMCA, they were actually … dragging their feet and slow-walking it. It finally came to a point where the United States and Mexico were going to go forward with just a two-country agreement. And that's when Canada came back to the table and said, ‘We want to be engaged.’ 

“We want to make sure that we have good free and fair trade opportunities. We want to make sure that we support America, American businesses, and help make sure that there's not abuse by any country out there. And that's what President Trump wants to stand for, is how do we support that? And members in Congress want to do that as well. [We] want to make sure that we help make sure that we support businesses in America, support workers, support families and consumers.”

On negotiating trade with Canada and the USMCA agreement:

“It really is. I mean, when you look at … this whole process that Canada has followed in terms of … dragging their feet on things … I mean, there's been ongoing disputes with Canada on things like dairy and lumber and hardwood … That was part of the whole process of USMCA was to make sure that when those disputes arose, there was an opportunity to address them and work through that. And we still have some ongoing things that we need to work through. 

“That's kind of one of the reasons why when USMCA was set up, there's a checkpoint next year to actually see what's working and what's not working. So, as we move forward, that's going to be one of those issues: how do we make sure that the United States, Mexico, and Canada [are] all working on making sure that we have free and fair trade that's good for all three countries?”

On the ongoing Democrat-induced government shutdown:

“We're now seeing, starting last week, federal employees, whether you're military or whether you're civilian employees, paychecks have run out of money, in terms of that. And so people are starting to be affected by that. 

“It's really sad because when we passed this continuing resolution to November21, it was really just to allow time to actually do the Fiscal [Year] 2026 appropriations [bills] for the entire budget for the federal government. And, you know, this is something that actually Democrats voted on 13 times basically when President Biden was in office as recently as this past March. 

“And so it was kind of one of these things, there's not gimmicks in it but they've been playing games around it. Actually, Senator Schumer said that … every day gets better for them through that process. The Democrat Whip in the House, Katherine Clark, she went out and said, ‘We know families are hurting through this but this is a leverage point’ for them. I just think that's the wrong way for American leadership to actually punish American families going through these.”