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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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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We lost the election and there’s no one to stop Trump. We can’t do anything to stop this.

Sheldon Whitehouse (D) could have stopped Trump's tariffs simply by showing up and doing his job, but he didn't. That's the whole point of this story.

[–] Ghost_Pepper@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

House would not have passed it and certainly not have enough votes to overcome a Trump veto.

[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if he did this to force the tariffs through.

[–] kerntucky@infosec.pub 1 points 3 days ago

That'd be a pretty fucked up thing to do.