Two Kansas Republicans who wear the MAGA label are fighting Donald Trump to protect a Canadian company's footprint in their state—without ever naming the president who threatened those jobs. When forced to choose between a foreign corporation and a clear America-first trade demand, both senators chose the corporation.
Trump made his demand blunt Monday on Truth Social: "NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren't good enough!" He argued that over half the company's revenue comes from American buyers while Canada blocks American firms like Gulfstream from its market. "If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a 'piggybank.'"
Within hours, both of Kansas's Republican senators scrambled to Bombardier's defense—without saying who created the threat.
Sen. Jerry Moran posted that Bombardier "supports a local workforce of more than a thousand employees" and said he'd reached out to the Trump administration, as Fox Business and the AP reported. Sen. Roger Marshall went further, claiming per Raw Story that he'd already taken his concern "inside the Oval Office." Marshall wrote: "We agree on the mission: bring more good-paying manufacturing jobs back to Wichita." Conveniently, he omitted that the mission's obstacle is the president he won't name.
Veterant congressional correspondent Jamie Dupree called it out within the hour, Raw Story noted: Marshall "finally talks about the threat to 1200 jobs in his home state—but never says why he has to put out this statement."
Bombardier leaned hard on its American supply chain in response. The company says 2,800 U.S. businesses across 47 states supply its operations, and it spends over $2.5 billion annually with American suppliers. Wings come from Red Oak, Texas. Flight controls from Los Angeles. Engines from Phoenix. All fair points—and all of which prove Trump's argument. The company already depends on American labor and American buyers. So why not move final assembly here?
The answer is in who actually takes care of whom. Earlier this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Canada would buy surveillance planes from Sweden's Saab using Bombardier's platform—passing over Boeing and L3Harris, the AP reported. Canada is also reviewing its F-35 purchase from the U.S. Ottawa protects Bombardier. Who protects the American worker?
Not Moran. Not Marshall. Neither senator's statement addressed Canada's market barriers against American firms. Neither mentioned that Canada just retaliated with tariffs on roughly $20 billion in U.S. goods after trade talks collapsed August 21. Neither asked why a Canadian company that ships profits north should get tariff-free access to American buyers while Canada locks out Gulfstream.
What we don't know is who funds the defense. Neither Raw Story, CNN, Fox Business, nor AP reported on Bombardier's political giving or lobbying spend in Kansas. The public deserves to see those numbers.
Raw Story separately noted that Marshall's bad week included a New York Times investigation finding he'd sued more than 700 patients over unpaid medical bills during his career as an obstetrician, with patients arrested in 81 cases and interest rates set at 18 percent. The senator who jails his own patients over unpaid bills wants you to believe he's fighting for the working man.
Trump says build here or don't sell here. Two MAGA senators say protect the Canadian company. Someone in this fight is representing the American worker. It isn't the senators who won't even name the man threatening the jobs they claim to defend.
