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Bill to to revoke Trump's "emergency order" to bypass congress in proclaiming tariffs failed because two senators were absent. (www.cnn.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a disgrace to miss the vote, but that's not the only way to neglect their Senate responsibilities. Don't forget to be that angry at every GOP Senator except Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. Those three voted for the bill, but I'm sure there are ways they've betrayed us too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

every GOP Senator except Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski.

Why are those three assholes getting a pass? At best, they seem to outwardly know what trump is doing is wrong, damaging, and unconstitutional, yet they still enable him to do it. If anything, they should be shamed more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

In this case, those three crossed party lines and voted to stop the tariffs. Still, being GOP Senators, they almost certainly betrayed the American people for their orange dictator wannabe in the past. So shame them anyway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why are those three assholes getting a pass?

I believe the "those three voted for the bill" part of the comment to which you're replying answers that. That bill was the one proposed to block the tariffs.

yet they still enable him to do it. If anything, they should be shamed more.

How so?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, I thought they blocked with their republican counterparts.

They have done that in the past, acknowledged that what was happening was wrong, and then voting to allow it to happen. I'm not clearing them because they made one tiny stumble quietly in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Rand Paul is a hard core classical libertarian. He will always vote for whatever creates less federal or presidential power. Doesn't matter if it's Democrats or Republicans presenting the bill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Like fuck he is.