{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.rosen.senate.gov/2026/09/30/video-amid-trump-trade-war-and-rising-prices-rosen-pushes-back-on-trumps-hostile-actions-against-canada/", "VIDEO: Amid Trump Trade War and Rising Prices, Rosen Pushes Back on Trump\u2019s Hostile Actions Against Canada", "2026-09-30", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "NV", "Jacky Rosen", "R000608", "www.rosen.senate.gov", "rosen", "https://www.rosen.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Senate Republicans Blocked Rosen Resolution Condemning Trump\u2019s Actions Against Canada\n\nWatch Senator Rosen\u2019s Full Remarks HERE.\n\nWASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, U.S. Senate Republicans blocked Senator Jacky Rosen\u2019s (D-NV) attempt to pass her resolution denouncing Donald Trump\u2019s hostile actions against Canada that are increasing prices for consumers and harming Nevada\u2019s economy. The resolution calls for the removal of Trump\u2019s new 50 percent cost-raising tariffs on Canadian products and demands that the President stop taking inflammatory actions that needlessly harm the U.S. relationship with Canada. Nevada has already felt the impact of President Trump\u2019s reckless actions, with tourism from Canada to Las Vegas down 17 percent in the last year and tariffs causing prices to skyrocket across the board. Canada is Nevada\u2019s second-largest export market, accounting for $1.6 billion in goods every year.\n\nSenator Rosen has been an outspoken critic of Trump\u2019s attacks on Canada and their impact on Nevada. Earlier this month, Senator Rosen released a statement denouncing Trump\u2019s trade war with Canada. She also helped introduce a bill that would repeal Trump\u2019s new 50 percent cost-raising tariffs on Canada. Senator Rosen also met with the Consul General of Canada to discuss the relationship between Nevada and Canada, as well as the importance of Canadian visitors and products to Nevada\u2019s economy.\n\nBelow are Senator Rosen\u2019s full remarks:\n\nToday, I rise to speak up against Donald Trump\u2019s reckless trade war against Canada and the impact it is having on my state of Nevada.\n\nBecause of Trump\u2019s childish fight with our neighbor, tourism is down, prices are up, and Canada is rethinking its relationship with our country.\n\nLet me tell you why this matters for my state.\n\nCanada is the number one source of international visitors to Las Vegas.\n\nIn 2024, nearly 1.5 million Canadians visited Nevada to help boost our tourism economy and the small businesses that depend on it.\n\nAnd Canada is also one of Nevada\u2019s top trading partners.\n\nIn fact, Nevada exports approximately $1.6 billion worth of goods to Canada.\n\nThink about it: $1.6 billion of revenue coming to businesses in my state of Nevada to further contribute to our economy.\n\nThis is exactly why a good, healthy relationship between Canada and the United States is important for Nevada, Nevada\u2019s economy, Nevada\u2019s families.\n\nBut Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to harm our relationship with Canada. He\u2019s hurting Nevada families; he\u2019s hurting Nevada businesses along the way.\n\nOne of the first actions Trump took since returning to the White House was beginning a reckless and erratic trade war that has resulted in higher prices for American businesses. For American families, for all of us. Every single one of us.\n\nTo date, he has imposed tariffs on many items we buy from Canada, with higher rates on products like building materials, brand-name prescription drugs, alcohol, and paper products.\n\nI\u2019ve heard from restaurant owners paying more for paper towels and homebuilders paying more for materials. These costs not only make it impossible for our business owners to plan ahead, but they also get passed on to families.\n\nMost recently, Trump utilized a never-before-used trade authority- I want to emphasize this- a never-before-used trade authority to target Canada, applying 50 percent tariffs on a wide array of Canadian goods.\n\nIn retaliation, Canada recently imposed their own tariffs on goods they import from the United States, including from my state of Nevada.\n\nRemember the $1.6 billion in Nevada goods we export to Canada? That number will likely be reduced because of these retaliatory tariffs.\n\nAnd just yesterday, Trump\u2019s ban on the import of many Canadian goods has gone into effect, restricting Americans\u2019 freedom, restricting our freedom to buy what we want to buy, and making all of our prices go up.\n\nThe back-and-forth tariffs are a disaster, but they only tell one side of the story of Trump\u2019s hostilities towards Canada.\n\nTrump\u2019s childish attacks on Canada have included threats to annex it as the United States\u2019 \u201c51st state,\u201d and references to the Canadian Prime Minister as \u201cGovernor.\u201d\n\nHe\u2019s tried to rename Lake Ontario to \u201cLake America.\u201d\n\nTrump even canceled trade negotiations because a Canadian television ad hurt his feelings.\n\nAfter a year and a half of this nonsense, where has Trump gotten us?\n\nWell, I can tell you where: last year, Canadian tourism to Las Vegas declined by 17 percent.\n\nThis contributed to an overall decline in tourism that made 2025 the worst non-pandemic year for Las Vegas since we began tracking data.\n\nWhen we see a decline like this, it isn\u2019t just a data point for us. Hospitality employs nearly a third of all the workers in Nevada.\n\nSo this means fewer guests in our hotel rooms, which leads to fewer shifts for housekeepers.\n\nIt means fewer visits to our restaurants and less tip money for servers and bartenders, and it trickles down to mean less money in our hospitality workers\u2019 pockets, and when they go home to the neighborhoods they live in, that\u2019s less money they can spend there.\n\nIt\u2019s not only Nevada that\u2019s feeling this. According to the Canadian government\u2019s own data, total spending by Canadians in the United States declined by over $3 billion\n\nAnd Canadians themselves are pointing to Trump\u2019s hostility as a reason for this decline.\n\nThey\u2019re still traveling and spending money, Canadians are. They\u2019re just not coming to the United States. This situation was 100% avoidable. None of this had to happen.\n\nNo one can argue with the facts: tourism is down because of Trump\u2019s trade war with Canada. Less money is being invested in our economy, and our small businesses are struggling to navigate expensive and constantly-changing conditions.\n\nThat\u2019s why I\u2019m here today to pass a simple resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Trump\u2019s trade war against Canada must end. It must end to get our economy and the relationship with our neighbor back on track.\n\nI hope my colleagues can look at the facts and agree.", 1, "2026-10-01T11:23:28Z", "2026-10-01T11:25:15Z"]], "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.rosen.senate.gov/2026/09/30/video-amid-trump-trade-war-and-rising-prices-rosen-pushes-back-on-trumps-hostile-actions-against-canada/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0014679282903671, "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"}