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.”



100%.
But this just feels like more of politics as normal. It’s the stuff that we know doesn’t actually do anything, and IMHO, in an era where the DNC is viewed as a party that’s all talk and no substance, this stuff does help. It reenforces that negative image.