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From the Washington Examiner: The Senate is poised Wednesday evening to overturn the emergency declaration used by President Donald Trump to invoke Canadian tariffs.
It is a bipartisan rebuke that would mark the greatest policy blemish of Trump’s second term and come just hours after he is set to announce new import taxes on what he has dubbed “Liberation Day” to impose more sweeping tariffs on a host of countries.
At least four Republican senators — Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Rand Paul (R-KY), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) — are primed to break rank and support a privileged measure from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) that the GOP-led chamber is forced to vote on. It requires only a simple majority and would roll back Trump’s declared fentanyl emergency used to impose a 25% tariff on Canada.
Collins, whose state borders Canada and is a major trade partner, said Maine’s economy is “integrated with Canada” and that tariffs would cause wide-ranging price hikes that would be “detrimental to many Maine families and our local economies.”
The measure would not do much to change policy aside from sending a political message to the president. The GOP-led House has prevented the ability to force votes to terminate Trump’s declaration. And even if the House did line up with the Senate and vote to roll it back, Congress would lack a veto-proof majority.
Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine, who is leading the effort, announced Wednesday, “I’m on the floor calling out Trump for the new taxes he’s imposing on Canadian goods that will raise costs for Virginian families and hurt our businesses. This trade war is ridiculous, and today the Senate will vote on my legislation to challenge it.”
I’m on the floor calling out Trump for the new taxes he’s imposing on Canadian goods that will raise costs for Virginian families and hurt our businesses. This trade war is ridiculous, and today the Senate will vote on my legislation to challenge it. https://t.co/VryTENmGF6
— Senator Tim Kaine (@SenTimKaine) April 2, 2025
President Trump ripped into the four Republican senators for siding with Democrats in a fiery Truth Social post Tuesday night:
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy.
They are playing with the lives of the American people, and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels. The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, in that it is not going anywhere because the House will never approve it and I, as your President, will never sign it.
Why are they allowing Fentanyl to pour into our Country unchecked, and without penalty. What is wrong with them, other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly known as TDS? Who can want this to happen to our beautiful families, and why?
To the people of the Great States of Kentucky, Alaska, and Maine, please contact these Senators and get them to FINALLY adhere to Republican Values and Ideals. They have been extremely difficult to deal with and, unbelievably disloyal to hardworking Majority Leader John Thune, and the Republican Party itself. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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