Republicans Want Trump To Back Off His Tariff Proposal

WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican allies of President Donald Trump are pleading with him to back off his threat of turning to international tariffs, but Trump says he won’t.
Trump says Canada and Mexico will not be spared from his plans for special import taxes on steel and aluminum. He’s holding out the possibility of later exempting the longstanding friends if they agree to better terms for the U.S. in revising the North American Free Trade Agreement.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and o