The Senate voted on Tuesday to approve a resolution that would block Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, with five Republicans joining Democrats to back the measure in a rebuke to the president.
Led by Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, the resolution would terminate the national emergency that the administration is using to impose 50% tariffs on goods from Brazil.
“President Trump’s tariff regime — global, Brazilian tariffs, Canadian tariffs, tariff deals announced then paused, tariff deals negotiated, exceptions granted and in some cases not granted — have created huge chaos in the national economy,” Kaine said in a speech on the Senate floor before the vote. “Tariffs are a tax on American consumers. Tariffs are a tax on American businesses. And they are a tax that is imposed by a single person: Donald J. Trump.”
Now do all of them.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul joined Democrats to vote in favor.
They are actors in the Republican theater ensemble
Woo they worked together on something, now do better
It’s all theater. It will die in the House
The bill will still need to pass the House and be signed by the president
Cool. So more pageantry.
