President Donald Trump (right) and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speak to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on October 7, 2025 in Washington, DC (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — In a notable break from President Donald Trump’s typical trade policies, several House Republicans joined Democrats in passing a resolution ending the president’s state of national emergency on the northern border that triggered tariffs on Canada just over a year ago.
The measurepassed 219-211, revokes Trump’s February 1, 2025 executive order imposing tariffs against Canada as part of an unprecedented utilize of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
Whether he has the authority to assert tariffs under the 1970s law is currently being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has heard Arguments in November. A statement that has not yet been published has been expected for months.
Reps. Don Bacon, R-Neb., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Jeff Hurd, R-Colo., Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., broke with the GOP and joined Democrats in opposing Trump’s taxes on Canadian goods.
Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, was the only Democrat to vote against the resolution.
Two Republicans, Greg Murphy of North Carolina and Riley Moore of West Virginia, did not vote.
The House vote came less than 24 hours after three Republicans voted in the House gave a reprimand to Trump and joined Democrats in blocking efforts by House leadership to expand the ban on advancing resolutions disapproving of the administration’s tariffs.
Trump’s core economic policies have drawn criticism for repeatedly making changes that create uncertainty for businesses and costs that are passed on to consumers.
The vote also takes place just a few days after Trump threatened to close a up-to-date bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, if Canada does not negotiate a up-to-date trade agreement with the United States.
In a nearly 300-word post Monday on his Truth Social platform, Trump predicted that if Canada negotiated a deal with China, the Eastern power would “end ALL hockey games in Canada and permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup.”
“Canada is our friend”
Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., the resolution’s lead sponsor, criticized Trump’s “manufactured emergency” regarding Canada.
“Canada is not a threat. Canada is our friend. Canada is our ally. Canadians have fought alongside Americans, whether in World War II or the war in Afghanistan,” Meeks said.
Meeks also said the tariffs would cost his constituents up to $1,700 a year.
“That’s what this is about. It’s about Americans and making things affordable for them,” Meeks said ahead of the vote.
Analyzes from the Tax Foundation And Yale Budget Lab Put the average cost per household at about $1,300 to $1,750 from all current tariffs combined – not just import duties on products purchased in Canada.
Fentanyl debate
Rep. Brian Mast of Florida disagreed, arguing that the costs were not lost income but rather drug overdose deaths caused by illicit fentanyl.
“Who will pay the price? It’s very sad to be asked by my colleague … because it’s important to remember what is this resolution? This resolution ends a fentanyl-related emergency,” Mast said during debate before the vote.
But US Customs and Border Protection Data from fiscal year 2023 to date shows that fentanyl seizures at the northern border are dwarfed by the amount intercepted at the southwest border.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration identifies China as the beginning of the illegality Fentanyl supply chain which travels through secret laboratories in Mexico and then to the United States.
Trump’s February 1, 2025 Implementing regulation acknowledged that border agents seized “far less fentanyl from Canada than from Mexico” last year, but claimed that the amount seized at the northern border in 2024 was still enough to kill 9.5 million people.
The synthetic opioid “is so powerful that even a very small amount of the drug can cause many deaths and destruction in American families,” the order says.
Senate measures to date
A handful of Republican senators have also rejected at least one category of Trump’s emergency tariffs.
In behind schedule October, Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky, along with Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, co-sponsored a joint resolution in one 52-48 Vote to eliminate Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian products, including coffee.
The president declared a national emergency on July 30 and imposed high tariffs on Brazilian goods accuse The Brazilian government is accusing its former right-wing extremist President Jair Bolsonaro of “political persecution”. Plotting a coup to stay in power in 2022.
The Senate vote marked a shift of two previous efforts decided in April to block Trump’s tariffs, including a measure to eliminate the president’s levies on Canadian imports.
