{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.gallego.senate.gov/news/press-releases/gallego-travels-to-canada-amid-trumps-trade-war/", "Gallego Travels to Canada Amid Trump\u2019s Trade War", "2026-09-01", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "AZ", "Ruben Gallego", "G000574", "www.gallego.senate.gov", "gallego", "https://www.gallego.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Senator Gallego Met with Trade Official and Local Candidates, Visited Canada\u2019s National War Memorial\n\nOTTAWA \u2014 Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) traveled to Ottawa, Canada on an official congressional trip to strengthen trade relations in the midst of the Trump Administration\u2019s continued actions to escalate a trade war with Canada.\n\nDuring his trip, Senator Gallego held a press conference with Canadian media.\n\nSenator Gallego hosts a press conference with Canadian media\n\nHe made the below statements to the press:\n\nOn Hegseth posting photo mocking Canadian Youth Cadet program: \u201cNumber one, it\u2019s really deeply disrespectful to the men and women of Canada that have died fighting with us, whether you know we go back to World War I and all the way to the Afghanistan War. It\u2019s deteriorating to future work together. Right now, Canada is on the front lines. You have Canadian men and women in Latvia right now, potentially putting themselves as a tripwire in case of Russian aggression\u2026. And what you\u2019re seeing is a reflection of these sycophants that are just trying to make this president happy, not understanding that they\u2019re potentially putting our security in danger\u2026. But there was nothing that was to be gained from that [Hegseth\u2019s tweet]. How did this help the discourse between us and Canada? How did it actually help repair our relationship with our Canadian partners, which are right now in the Pentagon still to this day, and are helping us man NORAD and all these other areas? I think it\u2019s adolescent, and it doesn\u2019t help any country, but certainly doesn\u2019t help the United States in terms of its security.\u201d\n\nOn what Democrats should do with Trump\u2019s reckless tariffs on Canada once they regain power: I think the anybody who is running for president should be very clear. It should be the goal of a Democratic president to remove these tariffs, 100% If it\u2019s within your power and within your political power, do it\u2026. Tariff policy is not a replacement for industrial policy, and I think the President just doesn\u2019t understand that, and we all suffer for it.\n\nOn Trump renaming Lake Ontario: \u201cEven the MAGA world is not rallying around Lake America. They understand that this is dumb. They may still be Trump supporters, but this is not a thing for them.\u201d\n\nRead more:\n\nThe Canadian Press: Arizona senator says Trump tariffs \u2018just dumb\u2019\n\nCBC News: Hegseth\u2019s comments on Canadian military \u2018stupid,\u2019 says U.S. Democratic senator\n\nNational Post: U.S. Senator says Democrats will have a tough time curtailing Trump\u2019s tariff policy\n\niPolitics: U.S. Senator says returning to CUSMA negotiation best path to repair fractured trade relationship\n\nSenator Gallego also met with Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade Yasir Naqvi to discuss the importance of the bilateral economic relationship the U.S. and Canada shares.\n\nSenator Gallego with Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade Yasir Naqvi\n\nIn addition, Senator Gallego visited the National War Memorial to honor Canadians who fought alongside Americans in both World Wars, the Korean War, and Afghanistan.\n\nSenator Gallego at the Canadian National War Memorial", 1, "2026-09-04T09:19:37Z", "2026-09-04T09:20:58Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.gallego.senate.gov/news/press-releases/gallego-travels-to-canada-amid-trumps-trade-war/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2487019412219524, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}