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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 5 days 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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[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What do you mean?

[–] tux@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They’re implying that they were purposefully absent to avoid actually voting no on paper, but to accomplish the same goal of voting no and making sure the bill failed

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Oh right. That's basically what absent is, at least in practice right? Not exactly I know.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

From another article on the matter.

Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News reported Wednesday night that there was "some consternation" among rank-and-file Democratic senators at party leadership, which had scheduled the vote for Wednesday evening despite apparently knowing Whitehouse would be absent.

This was intentional by Democratic leadership under the ineffective, incompetent, and corrupt Schumer.