The Republican-controlled Senate voted Wednesday to reject President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs on Canadian imports, with four GOP lawmakers crossing party lines, but the move will likely be largely symbolic.
McConnell was one of four Republicans who voted alongside Democrats. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty ... More
The Senate voted 51-48 to end a national emergency declared by Trump that sought to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian goods.
Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., voted alongside Democrats for the measure.
Paul has said only Congress can impose tariffs under the Constitution, calling tariffs a “tax, plain and simple, on the American people,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
The passed measure is largely symbolic, as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is looking to prevent the Republican-controlled House from voting on it.
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Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners Wednesday and a 10% baseline tariff against over 180 countries. China received the harshest levies, with Trump announcing a 34% tariff on top of a 20% tariff already imposed on Chinese goods. Longtime U.S. allies Canada and Mexico are excluded from the 10% baseline rate as a potential 25% tariff on most imports from the countries looms. Trump has threatened and delayed imposing the 25% tariff against Canada and Mexico. The president claimed the rates he announced Wednesday were placed at about half of the charges imposed against the U.S. by other countries, though that has not been independently verified.
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