As Trump's tariff pledge comes due, he vows to follow through on key campaign promise

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Trump added that he would want it to be "much, much bigger." The-CNN-Wire ™ & © 2025 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company.
59% : With the deadline due, officials said the tariffs would be available for public inspection by midday Saturday.
58% : Tariffs, after all, are one of the few policies Trump has consistently supported for decades, a rare through-line from his days as a New York developer to his time in public office (another is immigration).
53% : (CNN) -- On Friday afternoon, around the same time a delegation of senior Canadian officials was preparing to meet with President Donald's Trump's border czar in a bid to stave off withering new tariffs, Trump himself essentially told them from afar: Don't bother.
51% : But she did not specify whether the president's order would carve out any exemptions for specific industries or products, a critical detail that could dramatically affect how much the new tariffs impact continental trade.
51% : Trump himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports - along with tariffs on the European Union - all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.
48% : The delegation of senior Canadian officials had been in Washington for several days, meeting with various administration officials - including border czar Tom Homan - to try to avert the imposition of 25% tariffs on all Canadian goods that Trump had promised for February 1.
43% : Business executives hoping to talk him out of his plans got little traction, and Trump advisers bluntly said the president was unlikely to alter course.
40% : "There could be some temporary, short-term disruption, and people will understand that," Trump said Friday when pressed by reporters on the cost of tariffs being passed on to importers, and, by extension, consumers.
37% : "We're not looking for a concession," Trump said Friday in the Oval Office.
37% : Specifically, Bessent advocated for starting tariffs at 2.5% and gradually increasing them, according to the Financial Times - a plan Trump quickly said he would reject.
31% : Few inside the White House ever believed Trump would let his own February 1 deadline come and go without doing anything.
30% : "No, that would not be acceptable to me," Trump told reporters.
24% : Well before he was officially sworn in, Trump offered little indication he would back away from his threats.
21% : Instead, Trump appears intent on using tariffs as a weapon to enact his domestic policies: curbing flows of undocumented migrants and drugs into the United States.
21% : Still, even Lutnick acknowledged during his Senate confirmation hearings this week that offramps existed for Canada and Mexico to avoid the harsh duties Trump had promised.

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