Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer didn't mince words about what the tariff fight is doing to her state. Falling trade with Canada, she wrote this week, is "signaling severe strain with our strongest trading partner."
She isn't the only politician from the state that's saying so. Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, called the trade war "insane" two days after winning his seat.
That pressure won't end the tariffs overnight, but it signals mounting displeasure south of the border.
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What are Michigan's leaders saying about the Canada trade war?
Whitmer made her case in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, where she asked the Trump administration to end food tariffs levied in 2025 and 2026 and to reimburse Michiganders for higher grocery bills.
She cited research from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, a U.S. non-profit taxpayer group. By its estimate, tariffs on goods imported into Michigan from January 2025 through September total US$27 billion. That works out to the equivalent of US$6,485 per household, the highest of any state. Much of that cost is paid by manufacturers importing parts and machinery, not directly by families.
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