The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher argued that President-elect Donald Trump aims to secure the nation’s borders by “gambling” with his threat of tariffs toward the United States’s neighboring countries.

Trump announced he would impose a 25% tariff against Canada and Mexico on his first day in office until the two countries manage to stymie the flow of migrants and illegal narcotics into the United States, prompting Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to threaten her own tariffs against the U.S. Doescher, a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner, was asked if Trump risks losing support with these potential tariffs, to which she contended that tariffs threaten growth rather than risk inflation.