Local senator’s statement on Mexican President’s cancelled U.S. trip
President Donald Trump is claiming that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and himself agreed to cancel their planned meeting next week about who will pay for Trump's promised border wall.
The Trump administration has floated the idea of using a 20% tax on goods imported from Mexico to pay for the wall.
President Nieto says Mexico does not believe in walls and Mexico will not pay for it.
Maryland's U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D) even said in a statement today, that U.S. national security depends directly on cooperation with our neighbors.
Senator Cardin's full statement:
"Less than one week after taking office, President Trump is already causing serious damage to one of our most important relationships in the world. U.S. national security depends directly on cooperation with our neighbors. From addressing border security and drug trafficking to migration and economic issues, the United States is safer and stronger when we collaborate with Mexico. President Trump's divisive rhetoric and antagonistic policies are undermining our deepest values. His intention to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on a costly border wall that won't work is misguided and only weakens our standing in the world."
