Vice-president JD Vance went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday evening to vote in the Senate who killed a bipartite effort to reprimand President Donald Trumpthe commercial policy of.
Earlier in the evening, the Senate rejected the resolution that would have blocked Trump's world prices by revoking the emergency order that the president uses to adopt them. Two senators who were to vote for the resolution, the Republican Mitch McConnell and the Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent, allowing the resolution to fail 49-49.
The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, then moved to ensure that the tariff opponents could not bring their resolution to a later date, forcing Vance to the American Capitol to end the question. He scored Just the second time The vice-president used his revolutionary authority.
In his second term, Trump has placed historical prices On a wide variety of imports. He put a 10% rate on almost everything that happens in the United States; Prices imposed 25% on steel, aluminum, cars and many articles in Mexico and Canada; And has placed a rate of at least 145% on most Chinese goods imported into the United States in far the most important commercial action to date.
Democratic senator Tim Kaine, who has spread the resolution to block prices, argued that Vance before breaking the link worked in favor of resolution deputies.
“They are so dead on this pricing idiocy which destroys the economy that they will bring the vice-president to own it.” The American public needs to know who to blame this. And he shows everyone this evening which is to blame for that. “
The Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, also struck the Republicans for preventing a future vote, saying that “Thune and the Republicans are working to maintain Trump's prices in place”.
Gop meaning. Rand Paul, who spread the resolution, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted with the Democrats in support of the resolution, but they could not bring together the necessary votes to adopt it with key absences on Wednesday.
McConnell would have voted for this if he had not been under the weather.
“The senator was coherent in the opposite prices and that a trade war is not in the best interest of American households and companies. He thinks that prices are an increase in tax on everyone,” said his spokesperson.
Even if there had not been key absences and the resolution had been adopted, the resolution had died when he arrived in the house. There, President Mike Johnson at the beginning of this year slipped a provision in a rule to prohibit the consideration of the measure until September 30.
The senate moved earlier this month To symbolically condemn Trump's prices in Canada, and the Républicains de la Chambre used the same procedural tactic to ensure that the resolution could not be considered in their room.
The president, for his part, remained provocative in the face of criticism of the congress, previously promising veto to such a resolution if necessary.
This title and this story have been updated with additional developments.
Dave Goldman of CNN contributed to this report.
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