The US Senate revolts against President Trump on tariffs
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The U.S. Senate passed a resolution to end President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, with four Republicans siding with the Democrats. Senator McConnell joined three other Republican senators, Murkowski, Collins, and Paul to give Democrat senators the numbers they needed to pass this resolution. However, this resolution does not look like it would clear the House.
From Fox News:
The Senate once again rejected President Donald Trump’s tariffs, this time on a global scale.
Lawmakers in the upper chamber went three for three with resolutions meant to terminate Trump’s use of emergency powers to enact steep tariffs on foreign countries. While the previous two were geared toward specific tariffs on Brazil and Canada, the latest would end tariffs on countries around the world.
Earlier this year, Trump declared through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act that he would enact a base 10% tariff on countries across the world. He argued in his executive order at the time that “national emergency arising from conditions reflected in large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits” as a reason to pull the trigger on the tariffs.
Since then, senators have grumbled about the tariffs and made moves to terminate his usage of emergency powers throughout the year.
And it’s the second time that this particular resolution from Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has been considered in the Senate.
The first go-round saw the resolution narrowly defeated 49-49, not because of partisan will but because of absences on the day of the vote. At the time, Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., were expected to vote for the resolution but missed their chance.
Fast-forward to October, and McConnell joined a foursome of Republicans, including himself and Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., to strike down Trump’s global tariffs. Those same lawmakers all voted against the previous two resolutions, too.
The other tariff-minded legislation would end Trump’s emergency powers to enact 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods and 35% tariffs on Canadian goods.
Additional Reading:
Miller, A. (2025, October 30). Senate defies Trump on global tariffs as Republicans join Democrats in rare bipartisan vote. Fox News. Link.
Category: Democrats, Donald Trump
Traitors, all of them.
FUCK them all, primary them…..and not only that, imprison them. in the fucking DC jail to boot.
We’ve been having tariffs enacted since since January. I’ve not seen the economic instability/collapse the dims have been fear mongering about. At this point, the enacting of this resolution in the senate has more to do with TDS than it has to do with the economy.
The US Gooberment used to be run solely on tariffs up until the (16th? 17th?) Amendment (too lazy to look right now). That helped to keep the Gooberment small and manageable.
RINO rampage…
Speaker Johnson has already said those measures are DOA in The House. You can tell who believes in America Last. How come ALL these other countries put/increase tariffs on US goods, but we’re not allowed to reciprocate?
Plus, can’t Trump veto them, even if they passed the House?
As “da King” said in History Of The World: Part 1;
“You said it! They stink on ice!”
FUCK ‘EM one and all.
“…..with four
RepublicansGOPe RINO Democrat Lites siding with the Democrats.”There. Fixed it for ya.
Historically tariffs were a Democratic issue. Back when they espoused supporting the American Worker. They no longer support the American Worker actually working. The unions still back the Democrats because they no longer manufacture things. They also don’t run ports either. They get paid to not do these things.
I didn’t know that you could be both a republican and demoRat at the same time……………….
Amazing to me how “We The People” vote DJT in to change and fix things and the Left, the Fn Right too, and liberal Judges are doing everything in their power to stop him.
I’m not just a grouchy old man! I recognize traitors when I see them!!
Are they going to rescind all of the tariffs the other countries had been leveling on the US before Trump became President?