The resolution to rein in Trump's tariff authority stalled on a 49-49 tie, with two senators missing the vote.

A bipartisan measure that sought to undo the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump imposed on most countries this month failed in the GOP-led Senate on Wednesday.

The vote ended in a tie, 49-49, with three Republicans — Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — joining all Democrats present in support of the resolution, which was designed to terminate the national emergency Trump declared to implement his global tariffs.

Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who voiced support for the measure, were absent for the vote. It needed a simple majority to pass.

  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
    87·
    22 days ago

    Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who voiced support for the measure, were absent for the vote.

    I guess this bill wasn’t that important.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      38·
      22 days ago

      Wasn’t Mitch McConnell complaining about the tariffs just the other day, having spent decades making sure the USA gets to this point? And then when he has the chance to stop them he doesn’t show up? What a guy.

      • Seleni@lemmy.world
        13·
        21 days ago

        Which just means they want the tariffs to happen. Perhaps a billionaire promised to buy him New Orleans or something?

  • Helvetica@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    171·
    21 days ago

    “Bipartisan”

    3 out of 51? Bipartisan? I do not think that word means what you think it means.

  • kingofras@lemmy.world
    14·
    22 days ago

    Democrats really need to plan the votes around the times of day when Moscow Mitch isn’t in the middle of a reboot.

    • rhombus@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      21 days ago

      The Majority Leader decides when votes happen, so it was definitely planned for when the votes weren’t there. Either that or McConnell intentionally didn’t show up so he can keep claiming he’s against it while not actually allowing anything to get done.

  • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    22 days ago

    Let them go on the record as supporting this madness, and let them go on the record often.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    21 days ago

    Pretty fucking inaccurate to call it “bipartisan” when all of three senators from the overt fascism party voted for it.

    I fucking hate how imbecilic and vapidly breathless our media apparatuses are.