Harrisburg – Governor Josh Shapiro criticized 25% of President Donald Trump’s tariffs for almost all imports from Mexico and Canada as choosing “the fight with our friends” and warned that they would lead to higher prices of residents of Pennsylvania.
Shapiro, the first Democrat, heading the fifth most populated nation state, said that Trump’s decision to conduct a trade war with neighboring countries of the United States was a mistake. Instead, he said that he believed that the country should strengthen its relations with them, both of which are the best export places in Pennsylvania.
“It doesn’t make sense,” Shapiro said. “I don’t know why he did it. But we will see the real effect of his policy, and the result will be higher prices for Pennsylwanians. “
Since the inauguration of Trump, Shapiro rarely – but strategically – criticized Trump’s actions and his administration, which Washington raises, without criticizing people who voted for him in a state in which Trump won over 120,000 votes.
Shapiro is one of the many Democrats who are still trying to come up with their approach to the second presidency of Trump because he manages his upcoming re -election campaign in 2026 and his image as a democratic leader to candidate for president in 2028.
But on Wednesday before the work fair in Harrisburg, Shapiro was willing to criticize Trump’s tariff announcement and his long speech to a joint session of the Congress.
“I think it is important for the president to turn to the nation,” said Shapiro. “But I also think that it is important that the president told the truth that we have not heard all of telling the truth yesterday.”
Shapiro issued comments after signing the executive order managing state agencies to grant the preferences of employing dismissed federal employees, compared to preferences already transferred to candidates with state experience, in order to complete 5600 open jobs in a state.
Pennsylvania exported goods worth $ 14.5 billion to Canada in 2024 or 27% of total exports, which makes it the largest export market in condition. Mexico was the second largest trade partner in the state, with the state exporting over $ 5 billion to it.
Shapiro said that he was particularly concerned about how the tariffs would affect dairy breeders in Pennsylvania, who sell more dairy products to Mexico than any other country. He also noticed a potential augment in vehicle production costs, and consumers who want to buy them from tariffs to the Canadian aluminum industry, although Trump’s administration noticed on Wednesday that he would sluggish down some tariffs for car manufacturers per month.
In his speech in his speech to Congress on Tuesday evening, he admitted that at the beginning of the tariff implementation there would be a “some correction period” for farmers, established on April 2, and recorded a similar period in the first term in a trade agreement with China.
“I said,” Just dress with me, “said Trump about American farmers. “And they did it. They did. I probably have to stand with me again. And it will be even better. “
This is not the first strategic fight that Shapiro chose with the Republican President.
The governor was open in his criticism of the Trump Administration Directive to suspend the wide swath of the federal financing of subsidies and conducted a lawsuit worth over $ 2 billion in federal funds, which were frozen by Trump, mainly for environmental projects.
