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.”
There is no fentanyl dispute. Just an unfounded accusation from one side. Just like there was no shouting match in the whitehouse, only one sided shouting. Sick of “journalism”
This is no way means that Trump-favoring media outlets won’t simply paint this as an enormous win on both fentanyl and trade to domestic supporters.
I think these people stopped being journalists a while ago. I don’t know what service they are performing now.