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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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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 118 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A) Their absence was intentional.

B) They can't anyway, because they've already passed a law last month saying that the entire rest of the legislative year is just one calendar day long:

House Republican leaders on Tuesday quietly moved to shield their members from having to vote on whether to end President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, tucking language into a procedural measure that effectively removed their chamber’s ability to undo the levies. NYTimes source.

C) Fuck the entire Republican party.

D) Fuck the Democrats for not standing up to this shit.

[–] DelnitaCrane@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The national emergency law lays out a fast-track process for Congress to consider a resolution ending a presidential emergency, requiring committee consideration within 15 calendar days after one is introduced and a floor vote within three days after that. But the language House Republicans inserted in their measure on Tuesday declared that, “Each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day”

lmao, they actually abolished time to ignore their responsibilities. Is it possible to learn this power?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 days ago

“Each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day”

How the fuck are they just allowing this to happen?

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days ago

Trying to think of how to leverage this precedent to my advantage but all I can come up with is that work only has to pay me for 1 day “for the remainder of the 119th congress.”

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I thought Mitch McConnell was vocally anti-Trump now and critical of his tariffs?

[–] boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

McConnell and the disease that is conservative culture enabled all of this.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Only when it doesn't directly inconvenience him. McConnel has fallen from this, like, dark Talleyrand figure to just another fucking schmuck.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

The two senators were not absent, they voted no.

Oh and a reminder to contact your senator, especially if they're Democrats, and let them know this intentional absence to kill the bill is absolutely unacceptable.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 93 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Wow, like usual just a vote or two away…

I’m starting to think it’s not an accident.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Wait till the MAGA win the midterms with 89% of the vote

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If that happens armed rebellion is a requirement, not just a far off last resort.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

you are already there... stop moving the goal post

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[–] Fenrir 14 points 5 days ago

Oh that's the line?

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

That's obviously because deep state shadow government reptiles. Afterall, all maga believes that, and there is so many of them, they can't all be mistaken.

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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago (2 children)

WTF?? The 2 f*cking assholes missed the most important vote of their entire senate careers. Either one of them could have stopped Trump's destruction of our economy with his illegal tariffs and gigantic tax increases just by showing up at their job. Now inflation is going to skyrocket, unemployment is going to skyrocket, the stock market will continue to crash, Traitorapist Trump is going to stick us all with gigantic tax increases, and a possible Great Depression II is around the corner, all because neither of these 2 people could be inconvenienced to show up and do their jobs.

[–] hitstun@fedia.io 27 points 5 days ago (6 children)

It's a disgrace to miss the vote, but that's not the only way to neglect their Senate responsibilities. Don't forget to be that angry at every GOP Senator except Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. Those three voted for the bill, but I'm sure there are ways they've betrayed us too.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

the ones who skipped it are republicans (read: fascists)
if you believe it was anything other than a completely intentional bit of political smokescreen, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

Edit: fuckin.. Sheldon Whitehouse skipped it…? What the fuck. I had missed that. Welp; this is America, and betrayal of principles is the new black nowadays

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The bond market is failing. If that reaches fruition the economy collapses, including the banks.

Either Trumps own people turn against him or this horrific outcome may happen.

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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/email-sheldon/

Tell the useless fucking sack of shit Sheldon how you feel about him abandoning his post and choosing to support Nazis instead of his constituents.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

But ItS tHe RePubIcAnS guys. Ignore the other half just nodding and shrugging. It's the Republicans guys, inaction is not complicity. (Unless it's tHe OtHeR GuYs)

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago

It fucking literally is though.

[–] BBQuicktime@thelemmy.club 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's always, always, always all of the republicans causing shit. Usually a few democrats join them, but it's negligible and proves that "but both sides" is a load of BS.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

both sides are corporate neolibs, just one is extra fash.

they are both bad, but the republicans are by far way, way worse.

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