2026-08-26T10:00:29.776Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
国会共和党人本乐见唐纳德·特朗普总统不受欢迎的关税政策在中期选举临近之际逐渐淡出新闻头条。如今距离选举日仅余10周，特朗普却决定再度将关税问题置于核心位置，这一决定激怒了他所在的政党。
短短几天内，总统不仅挑起了与加拿大的贸易战，还宣布将放宽进口牛肉关税——这记经济组合拳将对多个关键摇摆州产生尤为严重的影响，而这些州的支持对赢得国会控制权至关重要。
此前已疲于应对选民对生活成本高涨的普遍不满的共和党人，正公开呼吁特朗普放弃对加拿大的强硬立场。中西部和南部各州的议员也纷纷与削减外国牛肉关税的计划划清界限，警告称这种看似能降低这一食品杂货主食价格的短暂利好，远不及美国牧场主因此遭受的损失。
“任何参选的共和党人都不会说这是个好主意，”长期为共和党效力的战略家道格·海伊说道，“物价太高了，很难看出这场（贸易战）能对任何共和党候选人有任何帮助。”
此后已有十余名共和党议员批评这两项经济举措，其中包括坚定的特朗普盟友，他们也毫不掩饰对本国州内所受冲击的不满。
参议院共和党二号人物约翰·巴拉索参议员恳求政府出台政策，“让怀俄明州的牧场主更容易——而非更难——为美国供应牛肉”。阿肯色州参议员汤姆·科顿称牛肉进口计划“考虑欠妥”，并敦促特朗普重新考虑。内布拉斯加州参议员黛布·费舍尔的表态更为直白：“我对这一决定深感失望”，她在X平台上写道。
在少数几个将于11月决定国会控制权归属的北部州，共和党人因白宫与加拿大的谈判破裂而措手不及，他们已敦促特朗普终止这场可能推高一系列商品价格的贸易战。
“对加拿大征收新关税是个错误，”正处于激烈连任竞选中的缅因州参议员苏珊·柯林斯表示，“我真心希望我们能回到与加拿大邻国之间那种友好且互利的经济关系。”
这一波批评之声进一步凸显了特朗普与共和党议员之间日益恶化的关系——而这些议员的政治命运将决定特朗普任期最后几年的走向。
特朗普基本拒绝调整施政重点以帮助共和党候选人在11月的选举中胜出，近几个月来他一直专注于自己钟爱的基建项目、发动不得人心的中东战争，并强化其激进的关税政策。而共和党候选人则愈发焦虑，担心特朗普不断下滑的支持率所带来的负面影响，会让他们失去众议院甚至可能参议院的控制权。
“这些关税的实施方式既随意又前后矛盾，制造了不必要的混乱，”密歇根州共和党战略家杰森·罗伊说道，“与我们最大的贸易伙伴和盟友开战并没有什么好处。”
尽管共和党内部怨声载道，但白宫官员淡化了特朗普贸易政策所引发的后果，辩称这些政策旨在从长远角度让选民受益。
据两名知情人士透露，在与忧心忡忡的议员和盟友的沟通中，助手们强调，计划增加的碎牛肉进口量是一项临时解决方案，旨在解决供应短缺问题，并在11月选举前压低牛肉价格。这项仍在最终敲定的命令，旨在在提振美国养牛业的渐进式措施初见成效之前，保障市场供应。
“难道候选人不想谈论共和党为降低牛肉价格所做的努力吗？”一名白宫官员在谈及外界对政府牛肉计划的反对声时说道，“我们不是说美国生产商没有竞争力或不尽责，只是说我们正面临供应紧缩。”
与此同时，与加拿大不断升级的关税对峙，是助手们试图将其打造成特朗普交易能力最新体现的举措——他们辩称，任何成本上涨带来的痛苦将主要由这个北方邻国承担。
特朗普政府指责加拿大领导人在贸易协定接近达成时提出新要求，导致谈判破裂，但加拿大方面则称，美国方面发出的矛盾信号最终断送了协议。特朗普似乎也破坏了其团队的立场，他在接受CNN电话采访时表示，他在谈判后期添加了条件。
“听着就像我会做的事，”特朗普在周六说道，还补充道，“他们必须支付相当数额的费用。如果他们不愿支付公平的费用，我们就不会达成协议。没关系。”
特朗普并未表现出认真重启谈判的意愿，他暗示将争取更有利的条款，并在Truth Social上连发帖子攻击加拿大，甚至威胁要将安大略湖改名：“美国湖”。
“我和很多国家打过交道，加拿大无疑是最难缠、最不讲理的，”他在另一篇社交媒体帖子中抱怨道。
距离加拿大9月8日实施报复性关税的截止日期还有几周时间，共和党人已敦促特朗普政府利用这段缓冲期达成协议，避免全面贸易战。
特朗普过去曾多次放弃最极端的关税威胁，转而接受更合理的协议，以便他可以标榜为胜利。据一名知情人士透露，尽管特朗普言辞强硬，但一些官员也意识到，与加拿大这样的亲密盟友展开长期贸易战是不可持续的，且普遍不受欢迎。
然而，对于距离选举日仅两个月就要面对眼前政治后果的共和党人来说，未来达成经济休战的前景几乎无法带来任何安慰。
“此时用这件事搅乱密歇根的政治局势没什么好处，”正在为共和党众议员汤姆·巴雷特助选的罗伊说道，该选区是民主党力争翻转的众议院选区之一。“我们和加拿大有着如此紧密的经济关系，这让我们更难解决一直困扰我们的民生 affordability 问题。”
至于特朗普政府原本希望借此缓解部分生活成本压力的进口牛肉计划，对其影响的担忧反而在共和党基础选民中迅速蔓延——甚至波及华盛顿最受欢迎的“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）主题餐厅后厨。
“从明尼苏达到得克萨斯边境，美国人都在抱怨其他地区更便宜的商品正在掏空我们本国的产业，”巴特沃斯餐厅老板巴特·哈钦斯在《每日邮报》的专栏文章中写道，“扩大进口不会帮助美国牧场主，反而会让他们彻底破产。”
在一条短信中，前特朗普战略家、MAGA评论员史蒂夫·班农给出了更简洁的评价：“讨厌透顶。”
CNN的吉姆· Sciutto对本文亦有贡献。
Republicans are furious that Trump has revived tariff drama — just in time for the midterms
2026-08-26T10:00:29.776Z / CNN
Congressional Republicans were all too happy to see President Donald Trump’s unpopular tariffs largely fade from headlines as the midterms inched closer. Now, with just 10 weeks to Election Day, Trump’s decision to again put them front and center has infuriated his party.
Within the span of a few days, the president both ignited a trade war with Canada and announced he was easing tariffs on imported beef — an economic one-two punch that will have particularly acute effects in a slew of states critical to winning congressional control.
Republicans, already struggling to outrun voters’ widespread cost-of-living concerns, are publicly calling on Trump to drop his hard line against Canada. And lawmakers across the Midwest and the South are distancing themselves from the plan to cut foreign beef tariffs, warning that any brief progress toward lowering prices of the grocery staple will be far overshadowed by the pain it causes American ranchers.
“There’s no Republican on the ballot who will tell you they think this is a good idea,” said Doug Heye, a longtime GOP strategist. “Things are too expensive, and it’s hard to see how this [trade war] would do anything to help any Republicans.”
More than a dozen Republican lawmakers have since criticized the economic moves, including staunch Trump allies who nevertheless openly aired their frustration over the fallout in their home states.
Sen. John Barrasso, the chamber’s No 2. Republican, pleaded with the administration for policies that make it “easier — not harder — for Wyoming ranchers to feed America.” Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton called the beef import plan “ill-advised” and urged Trump to reconsider. Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer was blunter: “I’m extremely disappointed by this decision,” she wrote on X.
In the handful of northern states that could swing control of Congress in November, Republicans caught off-guard by the collapse in talks between the White House and Canada have pressed Trump to call off a trade war that could make a broad range of goods more expensive.
“Imposing new tariffs on Canada is a mistake,” said Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who is locked in a tight race to keep her seat. “I really want us to go back to the very friendly, economically beneficial relationship that we have with our Canadian neighbors.”
The chorus of rebukes further underscored the deteriorating relationship between Trump and the Republican lawmakers whose fate will determine the trajectory of his last years in office.
Trump has largely resisted altering his priorities to help buoy GOP lawmakers ahead of November, spending recent months devoted to his pet construction projects, waging an unpopular war in the Middle East and building on his aggressive tariff regime. Republican candidates, in turn, have grown increasingly anxious that the drag created by Trump’s cratering approval ratings will cost them control of the House and possibly even the Senate.
“The haphazard and inconsistent way that these tariffs have been applied has created unnecessary chaos,” said Jason Roe, a Michigan GOP strategist. “Picking fights with our largest trading partners and allies is not particularly helpful.”
Despite the frustration rippling across the GOP, White House officials downplayed the fallout from Trump’s trade decisions, arguing that they are aimed at benefiting voters over the long term.
In discussions with worried lawmakers and allies, aides have emphasized that the planned ramp-up of ground beef imports is a temporary solution meant to address shortages and bring prices down ahead of November, two people familiar with the matter said. The order, which is still being finalized, is designed to bolster supply until more gradual efforts to boost US cattle producers begin to show results.
“Do candidates not want to talk about what the GOP is doing to get beef prices down?” one White House official said of the blowback on the administration’s beef plan. “It’s not us saying that American producers are not competitive or not doing their jobs. It’s just us saying we’re in a supply crunch.”
The escalating tariff standoff with Canada, meanwhile, is one that aides have sought to turn into the latest display of Trump’s dealmaking prowess — arguing that the pain of any higher costs will fall disproportionately on its northern neighbor.
Trump officials blamed Canadian leaders for tanking a trade deal as it neared the finish line by making new demands, though Canada has claimed that conflicting signals on the US side ended up nixing the agreement. Trump also appeared to undercut his team’s position, suggesting in a phone interview with CNN that he’d added conditions late in the talks.
“That sounds like me,” Trump said Saturday, adding that “they have to pay a fair amount. And if they don’t pay a fair amount, we won’t make a deal. That’s fine.”
Trump has shown no inclination to restart talks in earnest, signaling he’ll push for even more favorable terms and attacking Canada in a flurry of Truth Social posts that included threats to rename Lake Ontario: “Lake America.”
“I deal with many countries, and Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable,” he vented in another social media post.
The two sides still have a couple weeks before the September 8 deadline for Canada to impose its own retaliatory tariffs, a cushion that Republicans have urged Trump officials to take advantage of in pursuit of a deal that averts an all-out trade war.
Trump has repeatedly backed off his most extreme tariff threats in the past in favor of settling for more reasonable agreements that he can tout as victories. And despite the bluster, there’s recognition among some officials that a lengthy trade fight with a close US ally like Canada would be unsustainable and broadly unpopular, a person familiar with the matter said.
Yet the prospect of reaching an economic truce down the road has offered scant comfort to Republicans confronting the more immediate political fallout just two months out from Election Day.
“Roiling the Michigan political scene with this is not super helpful at the moment,” said Roe, who is advising GOP Rep. Tom Barrett in one of the House districts that Democrats are seeking to flip. “We have such a strong economic relationship to Canada that this makes it harder for us to solve some of the affordability issues that are dogging us.”
As for the imported beef plan that Trump officials had hoped would help offset some of those cost concerns, the alarm over its implications has instead spread rapidly through the GOP base — including into the kitchen of Washington’s most popular MAGA hangout.
“From Minnesota to the Texas border, Americans are frustrated that cheaper economies elsewhere are hollowing out our own,” Bart Hutchins, the owner of Butterworth’s restaurant wrote in a DailyWire op-ed. “The expansion will not help the American rancher; it will finish him off.”
In a text message, former Trump strategist and MAGA commentator Steve Bannon offered a more succinct review: “Hate it.”
CNN’s Jim Sciutto contributed to this report.
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