'Conservatives once united': Rand Paul says Trump's new move will cause 'high prices'

Donald Trump has for the most part succeeded in bringing the Republican party behind him, but on Saturday one prominent GOP lawmaker broke with the President on a key issue.

It was recently announced that Trump would start imposing additional tariffs on a broad swath of nations, including close allies such as Canada.

This led Sen. Rand Paul to speak out.

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"Tariffs are simply taxes," Paul said over the weekend. "Conservatives once united against new taxes."

He continued:

"Taxing trade will mean less trade and higher prices."

In a follow-up post, the conservative senator said, "We won the last election by complaining about Democrats' policies, which gave us high prices."

"Tariff lovers will be forced to explain the persistence of high prices…" he concluded.