Trump trade rep takes bipartisan fire over tariffs as Dem launches bid to halt them

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "[They] can sell us all the shellfish they want, but the EU bans shellfish from 48 states.
43% : "This is exactly the right direction that we want to go in," Greer said. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., struck a more middling tone on tariffs, saying that he has never been a "great fan of free trade," and cited his work ending NAFTA and opposing normalized relations with China.
42% : But I want to move to an area, to talk about the legal basis of what President Trump has done," he said.
41% : The result is a trade deficit in shellfish with the EU," he said.
21% : On the Republican side, Chairman Michael Crapo, R-Idaho, was largely deferential to Trump and Greer, while some other Republicans voiced concerns.
20% : That became a sore subject during a particularly heated exchange between Greer and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., as the lawmaker claimed Trump unnecessarily "clobbered" Canberra with a 10% tariff.
16% : Democrats and media figures previously mocked Trump for tariffing uninhabited Australian islands in the Indian Ocean - which Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested over the weekend was to close any potential loophole to circumvent tariffs on such countries' mainland.
9% : Sanders said he lives 50 miles from Canada and does not see the same empirical data on illegal immigration and fentanyl smuggling that Trump accused Ottawa of failing to act on - and incorporated into his tariff calculations.

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