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.”
Now do all of them.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul joined Democrats to vote in favor.
They are actors in the Republican theater ensemble
Woo they worked together on something, now do better
It’s all theater. It will die in the House
Is trump the common enemy that finally unites the reds and the blues?
The bill will still need to pass the House and be signed by the president
Cool. So more pageantry.
Right, they really should have just continued to do nothing. /s
I’d rather see them dump money into organizing and rallying like the 50501 folks are.
Symbolic bills get you a handful of clicks, and that’s it. They’re not an effective use of time, and we need get people active and organized.
You understand that more than one thing can happen right?
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.
