President Donald Trump says Canada’s announcement it'll recognize a Palestinian state “will make it very hard” for the U.S. to reach a trade agreement with it.

Just days ahead of joint trade talks with the important U.S. trading partner, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada would join Western allies France and the United Kingdom in pledging to recognize Palestine as a sovereign territory,

A record number of Senate Democrats, more than half the caucus, voted in favor of two resolutions to block U.S. military sales to Israel on Wednesday night, The Hill reports. Meanwhile, Canada plans to recognize a Palestinian state in September.