Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Washington – The Republicans of the Senate defended the emergency tariffs of President Donald Trump on Wednesday and blocked a largely symbolic measure to terminate the president’s import taxes that the economy shocked.
The resolution failed in a votes with 49-49 votes Wednesday evening. The Vice President JD Vance broke the draw with a subsequent procedural vote to stop them measure from receiving another chance on the ground.
The Republicans Susan Collins from Maine, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Rand Paul from Kentucky were the only three who, with their party with their party at Trump’s exploit of emergency powers, to trigger tariffs to almost any other nation around the world.
Paul was the lonely Republican co-sponsor of the Senate Resolution, which probably never stopped under the Republican House of Republica.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat of Rhode Island, and the Republican of Kentucky Mitch McConnell missed the vote. In early April McConnell joined Collins and Murkowski voted in the vote to stop Trump’s tariffs in Canada.
‘Devastating’ economic news
The vote took place hours after the publication of numbers, which show that the US economy shrank in the first quarter of 2025.
“The devastating economic news that we received this morning should be enough for the senators to coordinate yes this evening. The only winner today is China that has left the markets and allies Donald Trump in dust,” said Democratic Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon shortly before coordination on the ground.
Wyden and Paul also sponsored the resolution, which aimed to block Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs, which were announced on April 2, which caused the market for the market.
That of the president shockingly high taxes In the case of goods that were imported from some of the closest trading partners in the country – 20% in the European Union, 24% on Japan, 46% in Vietnam – shook the global markets and deleted trillion to prosperity. Trump triggered the taxes by declaring foreign trade as a national emergency.
Trump announced a 90-day break for the tariffs from April 9, but left a universal import tax of 10% for almost every country on the entire world-icing china.
The White House is now in a comprehensive trade war with the world of the world. 2 economy that enhance tariffs for Chinese goods to 145%. China stated for American goods with a delivery of 125%.
Caine warning
The democratic Senator Tim Kaine, who also brought the resolution, informed the reporters on Wednesday that he was ready to link weapons with Trump to combat what the United States regarded as unfair trading practices in China, but Trump had to “wake up and smell the damage to the relationship with relationships with trading partners”.
“If you set the ally tariffs, you push the nations with which you could join to counteract China,” said Virginia Democrat.
Kaine also accused Trump’s trade policy for the negative economic headings on Wednesday.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis report showed that the gross domestic product in the USA decreased in the first three months of this year with an annual rate of 0.3%.
“It is the wrong economic strategy that the strongest economy in the world to one that has red flashing lights,” said Kaine.
Kaine said he believed that some Republicans would support the resolution of the Republicans, but that “leadership had filled them in bottles in bottles”.
Trump accuses Biden
Trump’s administrative officers and his allies in the congress continue to defend the tariffs. The President himself accuses the former President Joe Biden for the economic “hangover” because he described him in his truth in his social post on Wednesday.
“This will take a while, has nothing to do with tariffs, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. Be patient !!!”, wrote Trump.
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, also informed the reporters on the Capitol Hill on Wednesday that economic reports are “short -term”.
“You measure it from day to day, month after month, quarter after quarter. And as I said yesterday, I think you are playing the long game with the tariff problem, but we’ll see,” said the Republican in South Dakota.
Finance Minister Scott Bessent defend Trump’s import taxes on Tuesday from the briefing area of the White House, but also announced the appearance of the administration for 25% taxes on foreign cars and auto parts.
Chuck Schumer, Chairman of Senate Minister, made the vote on Wednesday evening.
“The Republicans of Führer Thun and Senate voted this evening to keep the Trump tariff tax. They have the Trump tariffs and higher costs for the American mid-range families,” said the New York Democrat in a statement.
