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But Risch suggested Washington was growing impatient on Canada’s progress meeting NATO’s benchmark of spending at least two per cent on defence, which Ottawa says it plans to meet eight years from now. “If Donald Trump was sitting right here, you’d get a big guffaw out of him on 2032, because that’s a long ways from what we’re dealing with in the world right now,” he said. “That’s an eternity down the road for us. This needs to be done now.” Canada is one of just eight NATO members not meeting the alliance’s two-per cent defence spending benchmark. Its updated defence policy forecasts spending will rise from 1.37 per cent of GDP currently to 1.76 per cent by 2030. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed at July’s NATO summit that Canada’s defence spending will hit two per cent by 2032. Yet the parliamentary budget officer last month said the government’s plan for achieving that is unclear and based on “erroneous” economic projections. The financial watchdog’s report said Canada will have to nearly double its annual military spending to $81.9 billion from current levels to achieve the NATO target — a difficult task for a government facing financial headwinds and new commitments to address Canadians’ cost of living. At the Halifax forum’s opening on Friday, Defence Minister Bill Blair defended the defence spending timeline as “credible and verifiable,” and that Canada was doing the work necessary to build up its military while looking at ways to “accelerate” its objectives. Trump’s criticism of NATO members that don’t meet their spending commitments as “delinquent,” and suggesting he wouldn’t come to their aid in the event of an attack, has added urgency to the issue. Matthew Whitaker, Trump’s choice for U.S. ambassador to NATO, has made similar comments. Risch noted he and Shaheen regularly talk to European NATO members that are meeting the spending target despite having smaller economies than Canada. “Canada’s going to have to step up,” he said. “This isn’t easy. It isn’t easy for us either. It certainly isn’t easy for a lot of those European countries. But the NATO alliance is the strongest, most successful military alliance in the history of the world. ... We’ve got an obligation to each other. And that obligation today is is more needed than it’s ever been needed.” Shaheen said she has had positive discussions with Blair in Halifax and that both Canada and the U.S. want to solve issues of defence together. “I don’t see it that way,” she said when asked if Canada faces any risk from the Trump administration if it doesn’t step up more quickly. “This is in our interests in the United States, it’s in Canada’s interest, it’s in the interests of all of those NATO members to see that we remain strong because of the threats that we face.” Risch added while there is cooperation between the American and Canadian militaries and defence officials, “the public policy in Canada has got to shift on this or it’s going to be a serious problem.” The two senators, whose states both border Canada, said Ottawa must also do its part to address immigration concerns that are a top priority for the Trump administration. Trump’s newly-appointed “border czar” Tom Homan has called the Canada-U.S. border “an extreme national security vulnerability” that can be a “gateway” for terrorist suspects crossing into the U.S. Last month, USBP chief patrol agent Robert Garcia — who oversees the section of the border known as the Swanton Sector, comprising eastern Ontario, Quebec, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire — said agents have apprehended more than 19,222 subjects from 97 different countries since last October. He said that’s more than its last 17 fiscal years combined. “I can tell you that the northern border is a concern for us in New Hampshire,” Shaheen said, noting the number of people crossing from Canada into the upper northeast U.S. has increased “dramatically” in recent years. “We’ve been working with Canadian officials and we’ve seen some progress,” she said. “But it’s something that we’ve got to work on, because ... we want to maintain the longest border in the world (in a way) that’s secure. And so we need to work together to make that happen.” Although Risch said the northern border was “a matter that needs work,” the situation pales in comparison to the U.S.-Mexico border, which saw nearly 54,000 encounters in September alone. Although that number has declined 78 per cent since last December, Trump has vowed to shut down the border and severely limit asylum claims, as well as mass deportations. “Our problem is our southern border,” Risch said. “And by the way, that southern border is not only a problem for us, it’s a problem for you, too, because once they get into the United States, it’s relatively easy to cross (into Canada). “(Trump is) going to go back to having a closed border on the southern border.”Steelers Take Backlash On Usage Of George Pickens: 'He's Special But They Don't Use Him In That Sense'
President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue. The request came as TikTok and the Biden administration filed opposing briefs to the court, in which the company argued the court should strike down a law that could ban the platform by Jan. 19 while the government emphasized its position that the statute is needed to eliminate a national security risk. “President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute. Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court consider staying the Act’s deadline for divestment of January 19, 2025, while it considers the merits of this case,” said Trump’s amicus brief, which supported neither party in the case and was written by D. John Sauer, Trump’s choice for solicitor general. The argument submitted to the court is the latest example of Trump inserting himself in national issues before he takes office. The Republican president-elect has already begun negotiating with other countries over his plans to impose tariffs, and he intervened earlier this month in a plan to fund the federal government, calling for a bipartisan plan to be rejected and sending Republicans back to the negotiating table. He has been holding meetings with foreign leaders and business officials at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida while he assembles his administration, including a meeting last week with TikTok CEO Shou Chew. Trump has reversed his position on the popular app, having tried to ban it during his first term in office over national security concerns. He joined the TikTok during his 2024 presidential campaign and his team used it to connect with younger voters, especially male voters, by pushing content that was often macho and aimed at going viral. He said earlier this year that he still believed there were national security risks with TikTok, but that he opposed banning it. The filings Friday come ahead of oral arguments scheduled for Jan. 10 on whether the law, which requires TikTok to divest from its China-based parent company or face a ban, unlawfully restricts speech in violation of the First Amendment. The law was was signed by President Joe Biden in April after it passed Congress with broad bipartisan support. TikTok and ByteDance filed a legal challenge afterwards. Earlier this month, a panel of three federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld the statute , leading TikTok to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. The brief from Trump said he opposes banning TikTok at this junction and “seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office.” In their brief to the Supreme Court on Friday, attorneys for TikTok and its parent company ByteDance argued the federal appeals court erred in its ruling and based its decision on “alleged ‘risks’ that China could exercise control” over TikTok’s U.S. platform by pressuring its foreign affiliates. The Biden administration has argued in court that TikTok poses a national security risk due to its connections to China. Officials say Chinese authorities can compel ByteDance to hand over information on TikTok’s U.S. patrons or use the platform to spread or suppress information. But the government “concedes that it has no evidence China has ever attempted to do so,” TikTok’s legal filing said, adding that the U.S. fears are predicated on future risks. In its filing Friday, the Biden administration said because TikTok “is integrated with ByteDance and relies on its propriety engine developed and maintained in China,” its corporate structure carries with it risk.Furthermore, the professor's research showed that tariffs have a ripple effect throughout the economy, causing disruptions in supply chains and leading to inefficiencies that ultimately harm American businesses. By raising the cost of imported goods, tariffs make it more expensive for companies to produce their products, which can erode their competitive edge in the global market. In the long run, this could lead to a loss of market share for American companies, as competitors in other countries are able to offer lower-priced products due to lower tariff barriers.
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