>Griffin said he wanted to say “thank you” to Musk from “the bottom of my heart” for curbing waste in Washington and making sure his tax dollars were spent effectively through the entity known as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, created by Trump.
>But Griffin, who gave $5 million to Nikki Haley’s unsuccessful bid to beat Trump, had strong words about the president’s threatened tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada. Trump on Monday ordered a global 25% tariff on imports of steel and aluminum.
>Such tariffs dull the US’s competitive edge, Griffin said. Even if tariffs are never enacted, he said, they’re a bad negotiation tool because they sow permanent mistrust with allies and degrade “the terms of engagement.”
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