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.
There are a decent number of left leaning people who I have heard express similar opinions, with the rationale that if Americans feel the collective economic pain they will be more likely to oust the fascists before fascism can completely take over the US.
Not saying I agree, but I have been finding this argument more often lately.