The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed legislation that would terminate new tariffs on Canada, just hours after President Donald Trump unveiled a raft of duties on foreign goods against countries spanning the globe.
Just hours after President Donald Trump announced massive new tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States, a bipartisan group of senators made the first push to stop the most nonsensical part of Trump's global trade war.
With President Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” of tariff implementation fast approaching, Senate Democrats are putting Republican support for some of those plans to the test by forcing a vote to nullify the emergency declaration that underpins the tariffs on Canada.
The Senate vote came just hours after Trump unveiled a host of new tariffs on what he dubbed "Liberation Day."
Four Senate Republicans helped pass a Democratic resolution opposing President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada after White House "Liberation Day" event.
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The Senate has passed a resolution that would thwart President Donald Trump’s ability to impose tariffs on Canada.
The Senate resolution, passed by a 51-48 vote tally with four Republicans and all Democrats in support, would end Trump’s emergency declaration on fentanyl trafficking that underpins tariffs on Canada.