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A bipartisan measure to undo Trump's global tariffs fails in the Senate (www.nbcnews.com)

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A bipartisan measure that sought to undo the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump imposed on most countries this month failed in the GOP-led Senate on Wednesday.

The vote ended in a tie, 49-49, with three Republicans — Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — joining all Democrats present in support of the resolution, which was designed to terminate the national emergency Trump declared to implement his global tariffs.

Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who voiced support for the measure, were absent for the vote. It needed a simple majority to pass.

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[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 86 points 6 days ago

Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who voiced support for the measure, were absent for the vote.

I guess this bill wasn't that important.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 37 points 6 days ago

Wasn't Mitch McConnell complaining about the tariffs just the other day, having spent decades making sure the USA gets to this point? And then when he has the chance to stop them he doesn't show up? What a guy.

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Which just means they want the tariffs to happen. Perhaps a billionaire promised to buy him New Orleans or something?

[-] prole 9 points 6 days ago

Yeah that's super sketchy.

[-] Helvetica@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago

"Bipartisan"

3 out of 51? Bipartisan? I do not think that word means what you think it means.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Would have died, at best, on the president’s desk anyway.

[-] xyzzy@lemm.ee 26 points 6 days ago

Fine. Make him veto it

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

And then burn him at the stake (figuratively, of course, for legal reasons)

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

In Minecraft

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

Pretty fucking inaccurate to call it “bipartisan” when all of three senators from the overt fascism party voted for it.

I fucking hate how imbecilic and vapidly breathless our media apparatuses are.

[-] manxu@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago

Let them go on the record as supporting this madness, and let them go on the record often.

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