Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is urging Republicans to defeat a Democratic-sponsored resolution to undo President Trump’s 25-percent tariff on Canadian imports, arguing the tariff is necessary to address the nation’s fentanyl crisis.

Thune is warning Senate GOP colleagues that ending the emergency order Trump has invoked to place tariffs on Canadian imports would open the way for drug cartels to shift their smuggling operations to the northern border.

Thune will lay out the case for defeating the anti-tariff resolution, which is expected to pick........

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