In an interview Sunday on ABC News' "This Week," President Trump’s top economic aide, Kevin Hassett, said the Trump administration launched a drug war, not a trade war, with Canada and Mexico.

The tariffs are "part of a negotiation to get Canada and Mexico to stop shipping fentanyl across our borders,” Hassett told ABC News' Jonathan Karl. "As we've watched them make progress on the drug war, then we've relaxed some of the tariffs that we put on them, because they're making progress."

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President Trump’s top economic aide Kevin Hassett was interviewed on "This Week."{ai:summary}Kevin Hassett, President Trump's economic aide, stated that the administration's tariffs on Canada and Mexico are part of a strategy to combat drug trafficking, particularly fentanyl. He noted that as progress is made in the drug war, tariffs are being relaxed. #politics

'We launched a drug war, not a trade war': Kevin Hassett

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