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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] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I thought Mitch McConnell was vocally anti-Trump now and critical of his tariffs?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

McConnell and the disease that is conservative culture enabled all of this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Only when it doesn't directly inconvenience him. McConnel has fallen from this, like, dark Talleyrand figure to just another fucking schmuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
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