Vice President Vance casts tie-breaking Senate vote to kill bipartisan effort to rebuke Trump’s trade policy | CNN Politics
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Vice President JD Vance late Wednesday cast a tie-breaking vote to kill a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s tariffs in the Senate.

Vice President JD Vance traveled to Capitol Hill late Wednesday to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate that killed a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s trade policy.

Earlier in the evening, the Senate rejected the resolution that would have effectively blocked Trump’s global tariffs by revoking the emergency order the president is using to enact them. Two senators who were set to vote for the resolution, Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent, allowing the resolution to fail 49-49.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    1191·
    2 days ago

    A) Their absence was intentional.

    B) They can’t anyway, because they’ve already passed a law last month saying that the entire rest of the legislative year is just one calendar day long:

    House Republican leaders on Tuesday quietly moved to shield their members from having to vote on whether to end President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, tucking language into a procedural measure that effectively removed their chamber’s ability to undo the levies. NYTimes source.

    C) Fuck the entire Republican party.

    D) Fuck the Democrats for not standing up to this shit.

    • DelnitaCrane@lemmy.world
      46·
      2 days ago

      The national emergency law lays out a fast-track process for Congress to consider a resolution ending a presidential emergency, requiring committee consideration within 15 calendar days after one is introduced and a floor vote within three days after that. But the language House Republicans inserted in their measure on Tuesday declared that, “Each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day”

      lmao, they actually abolished time to ignore their responsibilities. Is it possible to learn this power?

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        6·
        18 hours ago

        “Each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day”

        How the fuck are they just allowing this to happen?

      • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
        6·
        1 day ago

        Trying to think of how to leverage this precedent to my advantage but all I can come up with is that work only has to pay me for 1 day “for the remainder of the 119th congress.”