Salt Lake Tribune · Jun 5, 2019
GOP senators line up against Trump’s 5% Mexico tariff plan
(Andrew Harnik | AP) Mexican Ambassador Martha Barcena Coqui, second from left, and Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, right, speak before a news conference at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, as part of a Mexican delegation in Washington for talks following trade tariff threats from the Trump Administration. Washington • In a rare confrontation, Republican senators are declaring deep opposition to President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on all goods coming into the U.S. from Mexico. But it’s unclear they have the votes to stop him, and Trump said they’d be “foolish” to try.