Vice President Vance casts tie-breaking Senate vote to kill bipartisan effort to rebuke Trump’s trade policy

Vice President JD Vance traveled to Capitol Hill precocious Wednesday to formed a tie-breaking ballot successful the Senate that killed a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s commercialized policy.

Earlier successful the evening, the Senate rejected the solution that would person efficaciously blocked Trump’s planetary tariffs by revoking the exigency bid the president is utilizing to enact them. Two senators who were acceptable to ballot for the resolution, Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent, allowing the solution to neglect 49-49.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune past moved to guarantee that tariff opponents were incapable to bring their solution backmost up astatine a aboriginal date, forcing Vance to the US Capitol to enactment an extremity to the matter. It marked conscionable the 2nd clip the vice president has utilized his tie-breaking authority.

In his 2nd term, Trump has placed historical tariffs connected a wide assortment of imports. He’s enactment a 10% tariff connected virtually everything coming into the United States; imposed 25% tariffs connected steel, aluminum, autos and galore items from Mexico and Canada; and placed a tariff of astatine slightest 145% connected astir Chinese goods imported to the US successful by acold the astir important commercialized enactment to date.

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who cosponsored the solution to artifact the tariffs, argued that Vance having to interruption the necktie worked successful the resolution-backers’ favor.

“They are truthful dormant acceptable connected this tariff idiocy that is wrecking the system that they’re going to bring the vice president implicit to wholly ain it. Great, fto them bash it. Let them bash it,” helium said. “The American nationalist needs to cognize who to blasted for this. And they are showing everybody contiguous who is to blasted for this.”

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer besides deed astatine Republicans for preventing a aboriginal vote, saying that “Thune and the Republicans are moving to support Trump’s tariffs successful place.”

GOP Sens. Rand Paul, who cosponsored the resolution, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted on with Democrats successful enactment of the resolution, but they were incapable to propulsion unneurotic the needed votes to follow it with the cardinal absences Wednesday.

McConnell would person voted for it had helium not been nether the weather.

“The Senator has been accordant successful opposing tariffs and that a commercialized warfare is not successful the champion involvement of American households and businesses. He believes that tariffs are a taxation summation connected everybody,” his spokesperson said.

Even had determination not been cardinal absences and the solution had been adopted, the solution was dormant connected accomplishment successful the House. There, Speaker Mike Johnson earlier this twelvemonth tucked a proviso into a regularisation to prohibit information of the measurement until September 30.

The Senate moved earlier this period to symbolically condemn Trump’s tariffs connected Canada, and House Republicans utilized the aforesaid procedural maneuver to guarantee that solution couldn’t beryllium considered successful their chamber.

The president, for his part, has remained defiant successful the look of legislature criticism, antecedently vowing to veto immoderate specified solution if necessary.

This header and communicative person been updated with further developments.

CNN’s Dave Goldman contributed to this report.

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