All posts tagged "Ali Velshi"

MSNBC's Ali Velshi, who hails from Canada, said Sunday that annexing his home country could lead to a "liberal supermajority" in Congress, meaning that U.S. President Donald Trump probably hasn't thought through his annexation offer.

"Donald Trump has offered Canada the chance to become the 51st state, and I say, why stop there?" Velshi said. "Bear with me while I do a little math."

Velshi went on to explain that Canada has 41 million people, "so if Canada were to become America, some changes would be in order. Fiirst of all, Congress would have to grow." ...

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) ripped into President Donald Trump for imposing sweeping tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China that he claimed will cost American taxpayers dearly.

On MSNBC's Velshi Sunday, Van Hollen used the example of the billions of dollars Trump handed out to subsidize soy bean farmers hurting from his first term tariff actions.

"What happened was when Trump, in his first term, imposed those tariffs on some Chinese products, the reality was China's retaliatory tariffs prevented a lot of U.S. exports from from being — and we paid, the federal government, the federal taxpayer, the American people — ended up paying tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to big farmers. So, at the end of the day, it's the American taxpayer and American people who are going to pay and pay dearly for this stupid move," Van Hollen said. ...