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Bill to to revoke Trump's "emergency order" to bypass congress in proclaiming tariffs failed because two senators were absent. (www.cnn.com)

submitted 1 week ago by btaf45@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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Vice President JD Vance traveled to Capitol Hill late Wednesday to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate that killed a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s trade policy.

Earlier in the evening, the Senate rejected the resolution that would have effectively blocked Trump’s global tariffs by revoking the emergency order the president is using to enact them. Two senators who were set to vote for the resolution, Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent, allowing the resolution to fail 49-49.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, I thought they blocked with their republican counterparts.

They have done that in the past, acknowledged that what was happening was wrong, and then voting to allow it to happen. I'm not clearing them because they made one tiny stumble quietly in the right direction.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rand Paul is a hard core classical libertarian. He will always vote for whatever creates less federal or presidential power. Doesn't matter if it's Democrats or Republicans presenting the bill.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Like fuck he is.