Posted on 10/28/2025 4:59:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Senate passed a resolution Tuesday aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, with five Republicans joining Democrats in a rare bipartisan rebuke of the president over trade policy.
Sens. Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell sided with Democrats in the 52 to 48 vote.
McConnell has long been critical of Trump’s trade policy, and said in a statement ahead of the vote, “Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule.”
The resolution, however, isn’t expected to be taken up by the House. Earlier this year, Republicans in the chamber added a measure to a procedural rule blocking members from being able to force a vote on the president’s tariffs.
The resolution aims to end the Brazil tariffs by terminating an emergency declaration from the president.
Sen. Tim Kaine, the lead sponsor of the resolution, said before the vote that the president’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was not appropriate, considering that the inciting “emergency” that led to the tariffs was Brazil’s indictment of the country’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro.
“The emergency, with respect to Brazil, the unusual and extreme emergency that threatens the United States, that emanates in whole or in part outside the United States, is the Brazilian decision to prosecute Donald Trump’s friend. How is that an emergency?” he said, noting that the US has a trade surplus with Brazil.
Kaine added, “I’m against tariffs generally, unless they’re used very specifically. But I’m also against letting presidents just invent a reason to use emergency powers to do all kinds of...”
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If CNN makes a claim in the forest, does anyone give a shi...er...a Dorkbama?
All the usual suspects. 🙄
WTF ever.
Doesn’t survive the House
Politicians preening...
Yup.
“””Sens. Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell sided with Democrats “””””””
I’m SHOCKED.
Noted.
Read up on The Great Compromise folks, the only poor integration written into the Constitution as history has shown. The Founders had great aspirations at the time when our country was being put together but little did they know what would become of it, they couldn’t stand political parties in the sense we do today.
The best we can do today is repeal the 17th Amendment.
what a disappointment Rand has been lately
How many of them need assistance walking after 5:00pm?
Maybe his neighbor is threatening to beat Rand up again.
Voting with Chuckie Schumer, Pocahontas and Lisa Murkowski??Man, Kentucky whisky must cause chemical castration. These three Bluegrass geldings are a sight to behold.
wont pass, and even if it did Trump would veto.
NEXT
“Five Senate Republicans join Democrats to rebuke Trump’s Brazil tariffs”
How much were they schmiered?
The usual RINO’s.
[Sens. Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell]
The Usual Suspects
DON’T LET THEM REPRODUCE!!
Great. Brazil is more important to these dorks than ending a USA shutdown.
No surprises on that list.
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