Hoekstra fought tariffs in Congress. Hes changed his tune as Trumps Canadian ambassador
News Source : Salon
News Summary
- Howard Miller’s closure will cost about 195 people their jobs, most in Michigan.
- Pete Hoekstra, now the U.S. ambassador to Canada, was a nine-term congressman until 2011.
- He also was a vice president at the modern furnishings company now known as MillerKnoll.
- “The market should dictate the price of steel, not the government,” he testified in 2003 on President George W. Bush's temporary steel tariffs.Hoekstra has been a top defender of the president's approach.
Time is winding down for Howard Miller, the storied furniture company and clockmaker in western Michigan that said this summer it will close after 99 years. It identified the Trump administrations ta [+14846 chars]
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