The Senate voted 51-48 in favor of the Democratic-led resolution as Trump rolled out a sweeping tariff plan. It is unlikely to go anywhere in the House.
Just hours after President Donald Trump announced massive new tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States, a bipartisan group of senators made the
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday night rebuked President Donald Trump's worldwide tariffs announced earlier in the day with four Republicans joining all Democrats.
A resolution was approved by the U.S. Senate Wednesday that opposed the proposed tariffs on imports from Canada only hours
With President Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” of tariff implementation fast approaching, Senate Democrats are putting Republican support for some of those plans to the test by forcing a vote to nullify the emergency declaration that underpins the tariffs on Canada.
A measure to cancel some Canadian tariffs is all but certain to stall in the House. But with a handful of Republicans in favor, the vote sent a signal of opposition to the levies.
There’s two arguments,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said. “One is the constitutional argument, but the second argument is an economic argument – tariffs are just bad.”
The measure is largely symbolic of dissent among Republicans, as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has moved to stop a floor vote on it in the House.