Oregon Ron Wyden Senator | Photo credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP
The Republicans of the Senate detected little democratic resolution on Wednesday that would have blocked the global tariffs announced by Donald Trump earlier this month, giving the president a modest legislator of the victory in both parties, they have Remers Rave Rave.
Trump announced the great friction tariffs in almost all US commercial partners on April 2 and then reversed a few days later after a market crisis, suspending import taxes for 90 days. Amid uncertainty for both US consumers and companies, the Commerce Department said Wednesday that the US economy was reduced 0.3 percent from January to March, the first drop in three years.
Voting 49-49 arrived week after the Senate approved a resolution that would have frustrated Trump’s capacity to impose tariffs on Canada. That measure approved 51-48 with the votes of four Republican senators Susan Collins de Maine, Lisa Murkowski or Alaska and Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul or Kentucky. But McConnell, who has been very critical of tariffs, but had not said how he would vote, and Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was absent on Wednesday, denying Democrats the votes for approval.
The Democrats said that their main objective was to put the Republicans in the registry in any way and try to scratch the powers of Congress.
“The Senate cannot be an inactive spectator in the madness of the tariff,” said Oregon Ron Wyden senator, a main sponsor of the resolution.
The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, said that bleak economic figures should be a “attention call” to Republicans.
Varying a reprimand for Trump, the leaders of the Republican Party encouraged their conference not to vote for the resolution, even since many of them remain unlisted on the rates. Vice President JD Vance attended a republican lunch of the Senate on Tuesday with the United States commercial representative, Jamieson Greer, who assured senators that the administration is moving towards commercial agreements with individual countries.
Collins said before the vote that he believes that the democratic resolution is too broad, but she was supporting it because she sends a message that “we really need to be much more discriminatory when imposing these rates and not the treaties as”, but some Republicans argued that the vote was a political acrobatics. The resolution, which said is a point. “The only thing that Donald Trump’s rates have demanded is to increase the chances of recession and send markets to a tail,” said Schumer, DN.Y. “Today they have to choose: continue with Trump or stand with their states.” The democratic resolution forced a vote under a statute that allows them to try to qualify the national economic emergency that Trump used to collect tariffs.
The Massachusetts senator, Elizabeth Warren, described it as a “false” emergency that Trump is using to impose her “on again, onte, of a red light, green light rates.” The tariffs “are expelling our economy from a cliff,” Warren said.
The Republican President has tried to assure voters that his tariffs will not cause a recession since his administration has focused on China, raising tariffs on Chinese assets to 145 percent equally as detained to others. He told his cabinet on Wednesday morning that his tariffs meant that China was “having great difficulty because their factories are not doing business.” Trump said the United States really does not need imports from the world’s dominant manufacturer. “Maybe children have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” he said. “Then, perhaps the two dolls will cost a couple more dollars than they would.”
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Posted on May 1, 2025
