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.
The country didn’t vote to give Traitorapist Trump the power to illegally bypass the authority of congress. And nobody was expecting that Trump was going to impose way worse tariffs than the Smoot Hawley Tariffs of 1930 which created 23.6% unemployment 2 years later and was passed by congress, not illegally imposed by a president.