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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.   
      
   Senate Majority Leader John Thune then moved to ensure that tariff   
   opponents were unable to bring their resolution back up at a later date,   
   forcing Vance to the US Capitol to put an end to the matter. It marked   
   just the second time the vice president has used his tie-breaking   
   authority.   
      
   In his second term, Trump has placed historic tariffs on a wide variety of   
   imports. He’s put a 10% tariff on virtually everything coming into the   
   United States; imposed 25% tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos and many   
   items from Mexico and Canada; and placed a tariff of at least 145% on most   
   Chinese goods imported to the US in by far the most significant trade   
   action to date.   
      
   Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who cosponsored the resolution to block the   
   tariffs, argued that Vance having to break the tie worked in the   
   resolution-backers’ favor.   
      
   “They are so dead set on this tariff idiocy that is wrecking the economy   
   that they’re going to bring the vice president over to completely own it.   
   Great, let them do it. Let them do it,” he said. “The American public   
   needs to know who to blame for this. And they are showing everybody   
   tonight who is to blame for this.”   
      
   Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer also hit at Republicans for   
   preventing a future vote, saying that “Thune and the Republicans are   
   working to keep Trump’s tariffs in place.”   
      
   GOP Sens. Rand Paul, who cosponsored the resolution, Susan Collins and   
   Lisa Murkowski voted along with Democrats in support of the resolution,   
   but they were unable to pull together the needed votes to adopt it with   
   the key absences Wednesday.   
      
   McConnell would have voted for it had he not been under the weather.   
      
   “The Senator has been consistent in opposing tariffs and that a trade war   
   is not in the best interest of American households and businesses. He   
   believes that tariffs are a tax increase on everybody,” his spokesman   
   said.   
      
   Even had there not been key absences and the resolution had been adopted,   
   the resolution was dead on arrival in the House. There, Speaker Mike   
   Johnson earlier this year tucked a provision into a rule to prohibit   
   consideration of the measure until September 30.   
      
   The Senate moved earlier this month to symbolically condemn Trump’s   
   tariffs on Canada, and House Republicans used the same procedural tactic   
   to ensure that resolution couldn’t be considered in their chamber.   
      
   The president, for his part, has remained defiant in the face of   
   congressional criticism, previously vowing to veto any such resolution if   
   necessary.   
      
   This headline and story have been updated with additional developments.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/senate-republicans-democrats-   
   trump-tariffs/index.html   
      
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