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This week: SENATE TO VOTE ON TARIFF 'EMERGENCY'
Roll Call ^ | March 31 | By Niels Lesniewski

Posted on 03/31/2025 8:44:02 AM PDT by RandFan

Senators are expected to take a vote this week designed to stop President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports from Canada, before the focus turns to Republicans’ effort to advance Trump’s broader policy agenda.

And the House will keep itself occupied with several GOP legislative priorities while waiting to see if the Senate moves forward with a compromise budget resolution this week.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is once again using expedited procedures to force a vote on whether or not to terminate a national emergency declaration. This time, it is the declared emergency that Trump used to put 25 percent tariffs on many Canadian imports, with some exceptions.

“President Trump’s taxes on Canadian goods have sent our economy into chaos, and Americans aren’t buying what he’s selling,” Kaine said in a statement last week. “They know they will pay the price with higher costs for everyday items, and their confidence in the economy is the lowest it has been in recent years.”

But the president appears to be full speed ahead with tariffs affecting Canada and a slew of other countries.

“We have our own energy. We don’t need energy from Canada. We don’t need lumber from Canada. We don’t need anything from Canada,” Trump said Sunday night on Air Force One. “We don’t need cars from Canada, as an example.”

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This could be interesting some on the GOP side are against them including Rand.
1 posted on 03/31/2025 8:44:02 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

wow....a Senate vote....Biden did whatever he wanted to without opposition.


2 posted on 03/31/2025 8:50:10 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: RandFan

Apparently 95% of the Senate are traitors too. I have a solution for all of this.


3 posted on 03/31/2025 8:54:08 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: RandFan

You never want a Repub in a foxhole with you in a war. They will shoot you in the back every time.


4 posted on 03/31/2025 8:56:15 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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It'll be the usual cast of characters: Murkowsky, Collins, Rand, McConnell. Maybe Thune and Cornyn. Possibly Wicker (Mississippi) and Grassley.

The Senate lacks a veto-proof majority and it probably cannot get through the House.

It is interesting that House Republicans curtailed Congress’s ability to challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs by embedding a procedural rule change into a stopgap government funding bill passed on March 11, 2025. This is driven by arcane House rules and definitions. You've got to hand it to the Reps to come up with this clever scheme. Gory details below:

The Continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded included a provision that altered how the House counts calendar days under the National Emergencies Act (NEA) for the remainder of 2025. The language stated that “each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day” for purposes of the NEA with respect to a national emergency declared by Trump on February 1, 2025.

The NEA allows Congress to terminate a presidential emergency—like the one Trump used to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China—through a joint resolution. Normally, any member of Congress can force a vote on such a resolution within 15 calendar days of its introduction, followed by a floor vote within three days after committee consideration. Democrats, led by Representative Suzan DelBene, had planned to use this mechanism to challenge Trump’s tariffs later in March. However, by redefining “calendar days” to effectively freeze the 15-day clock for the rest of the year, the rule change blocked this fast-track process.

The CR passed 216-214 along party lines and ensured that no such challenge could be mounted in 2025 without broader legislative action requiring Republican leadership support—unlikely given their control of both chambers.

This move didn’t eliminate Congress’s theoretical power to oppose tariffs entirely; a joint resolution could still pass with majority support in both the House and Senate, followed by Trump’s signature or a veto override. But by suspending the NEA’s expedited timeline, House Republicans made it politically and procedurally harder, shielding their members from having to take a public stance on Trump’s tariffs.

Critics, including Democrats, called it a surrender of Congress’s constitutional trade authority, while House Speaker Mike Johnson defended it as maintaining an “appropriate balance of powers” with the executive branch. The change was a strategic sidestep, not a permanent repeal, but it effectively delayed any immediate congressional pushback against the tariffs for the year.

OK, is it now clear how the House Republicans outfoxed the Democrats? I cannot imagine working in that bureaucratic morass where you have to dream up definitions of "days" to defeat the opposition. I thought the bureaucracy in the companies I worked at was bad.

But, hey! Whatever works and whatever it takes, right?

5 posted on 03/31/2025 8:57:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (PDJT doesn’t just walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. He swaggers.)
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To: bray

The letter after the name means jack anymore.

The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.

A pol is either loyal to our republic or to Deep State.

The pols who side with those screwing our republic are Deep State.


6 posted on 03/31/2025 8:58:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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This could be interesting some on the GOP side are against them including Rand.

Rand is a self-serving idiot!
7 posted on 03/31/2025 9:00:31 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: mewzilla

BTW, anyone who thinks NYS’s dairy farmers benefit from Canada’s three digit tariffs on our dairy needs to talk to some od them.

Those still in business.

https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/small-farms-decline-new-york-especially-dairy-18665917.php

We’ve lost 6,000 of them since 1997.


8 posted on 03/31/2025 9:01:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: SoConPubbie

He needs to stick to medicine and leave economics to Trump.


9 posted on 03/31/2025 9:03:05 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

These losers are just hedging. So they can say “see I voted against them” in case it goes pear shaped.

None of these idiots has a clue as to how even a mom and pop store works, let alone our economy.

They still don’t know what a tariff or VAT is.


10 posted on 03/31/2025 9:03:53 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: mewzilla

They would rather tax our corporations rather than foreign companies.


11 posted on 03/31/2025 9:06:19 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: RandFan

Canada simply needs to remove all their tariffs on our products going to Canada. This is a Canada problem to solve not ours.


12 posted on 03/31/2025 9:08:27 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: bray

They would rather tax US, the citizenry.

We are cash cows to Deep State.

Nothing more.


13 posted on 03/31/2025 9:08:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: for-q-clinton

Canada made it ours.

Trump is addressing that.

That’s why Deep State opposes his tariffs.


14 posted on 03/31/2025 9:09:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

“These losers are just hedging. So they can say “see I voted against them” in case it goes pear shaped.”

Exactly right.


15 posted on 03/31/2025 9:15:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (PDJT doesn’t just walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. He swaggers.)
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How would this Senate bill make it to the floor for a vote?

After the election, GOP has the majority and Thune is leader. Would he advance a bill that stabs Trump in the back? If so, how is he better than McConnell?

16 posted on 03/31/2025 9:16:24 AM PDT by ZOOKER
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I nominate this as the most thoughtful well researched post of the day.


17 posted on 03/31/2025 10:17:02 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: RandFan

Us constituents are tired of business as usual. Trump has flipped the script on that. I wonder what the motivation is to not give him a chance, just to see if his plans work out. Perhaps it’s just not wanting him to succeed? Let’s say you don’t like him and you think he’ll fail. Well...let him fail. You win. Could it be that they think he’ll succeed and that’s what they don’t want to happen? And, who, exactly, will the loser be? OH, us the constituents.


18 posted on 03/31/2025 10:24:37 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: RandFan

Any Republican that votes fir this should be primaried.


19 posted on 03/31/2025 10:25:00 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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Maybe some Democrat Union guys could visit Timmy.

They seem to be all for the tariffs.


20 posted on 03/31/2025 10:28:17 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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