Five Senate Republicans sided with Democrats against President Trump’s tariffs on Brazilian imports, voting 52-48 to block these tariffs.
The Senate won’t get the resolution through the House and President Trump would never sign it. It’s more ceremonial or CYA in nature.
The Republicans in question are the usual: Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins.
The Republicans voted on Tuesday to pass a resolution ending President Trump’s emergency authority to impose steep tariffs on Brazil. They send us coffee, oil, and orange juice.
The Senate voted 52 to 48 to pass the resolution sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) .
Paul, speaking on the Senate floor, called the tariff a tax on U.S. consumers.
According to The Hill, the Kentucky Republican argued that the Constitution requires that “taxes must originate in the House” of Representatives.
“Yet, these taxes are originating with the White House,” he said.
McConnell, in a statement, said that Trump’s tariffs are hurting Kentucky businesses and farms, The Hill reported.
“New trade barriers imposed this year have made it harder to sustain the supply chains that let thousands of Kentuckians build cars and appliances in the Commonwealth. Retaliatory tariffs on American products have turned agricultural income upside down for many of Kentucky’s nearly 70,000 family farms,” he said.
The “Usual Suspects” so lets primary them and send them all out to pasture.
These idiots against tariffs are really so wrong.
There was a time when I would not have said this about Rand Paul, but he is acting like a paid-off globalist. Perhaps when that neighbor attacked him while he was mowing his lawn cracked his skull and damaged his brain. He hasn’t been right since that event.
I cannot explain Paul’s very selective highlighting of issues. He does it in a way that avoids being labeled anti-Trump, while he issues backhanded attacks on Trump. Paul is also whining about attacks on drug boats. But, Paul did not whine when Biden refused to negotiate with Putin. A potential WW3 was involved there, which shows Paul’s very selective and… Read more »