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2026-11-06 11:10:27
[Democrats are preparing legislation to remove Trump's tariffs on Canada as the first step in pressuring Trump's trade agenda] (1) According to a senior Democratic senator in charge of trade affairs, Democrats are preparing action to reverse the Trump administration's tariff policies, with the first target being the trade war between Trump and Canada. (2) Senator Ron Wyden, the ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee and a Democrat from Oregon, said that removing tariffs on Canadian products has overwhelming support; he and his colleagues are already discussing related legislation to push for opposition to tariffs imposed by Trump during his second term once he takes over the committee in January. (3) Wyden and people close to him say that the Canadian tariffs are the best opportunity to get Republicans to turn against Trump, and may be able to gain enough support to prevent Trump from vetoing the bill, or even to overturn the veto after he does. (4) This legislation targeting Canadian tariffs is just the first step in a series of actions by Democrats to pressure Trump's trade agenda. (5) Follow-up actions may include legislation to restrict some unusual legal authorizations by which Trump bases tariffs, such as Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930—the basis for Trump’s tariffs on Canada, but which no president has ever invoked before; another target may be Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which Trump first invoked earlier this year to impose temporary tariffs.
