GOP leaders push Trump to cancel or narrow tariff plan, but he appears unmoved
WASHINGTON - Hoping to blunt a move Republicans fear could spark a global trade war and backfire politically, party leaders in the House and Senate implored President Donald Trump on Tuesday to narrow or repudiate his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
The president, at an afternoon news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, appeared unmoved, defending his intent to level tariffs and taking particular aim at the European Union, a group comprised largely of diplomatic allies.
"The United States has been taken advantage of by other countries, both friendly and not so friendly for many, many decades, and we have a trade deficit of $800 billion a year," Trump said, "And
