President Donald Trump’s planned steel and aluminium tariffs have shaken up the US political establishment, drawing unexpected support from some Democrats while earning criticism from Republicans.
Hours after Mr Trump described the tariffs as “my baby” at a Pennsylvania rally, referring to EU cars as “the big money item” when it came to tariffs, he was given a measure of support by Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senator for Massachusetts.
But Jeff Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, said he planned to introduce legislation that would nullify Mr Trump’s planned tariffs, adding that Congress had used similar authority in the 1970s to block President Jimmy Carter’s tariffs on oil.
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