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The Trump administration's plan to import up to 300,000 metric tons of beef tariff-free for 90 days and a separate push to target Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier have put two distinct supply-chain fights into congressional Republicans' mid-cycle order book.
More than a dozen GOP senators publicly criticized the beef move, warning it would damage American cattle ranchers, and Sen.
Roger Marshall of Kansas, a Trump ally, was forced to break with the White House over Bombardier because the company is a key employer in a state with an increasingly competitive Senate race.
Those two episodes frame the operational problem. The 90-day tariff window is short; the campaign-trail exposure for incumbents in ranching and manufacturing states is not.
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