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.
The Senate was expected to vote on a resolution that offers Republicans an off-ramp to the import taxes on Canada.
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.