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Bill to to revoke Trump's "emergency order" to bypass congress in proclaiming tariffs failed because two senators were absent. (www.cnn.com)
submitted 1 year ago by btaf45@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social
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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.

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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

WTF?? The 2 f*cking assholes missed the most important vote of their entire senate careers. Either one of them could have stopped Trump's destruction of our economy with his illegal tariffs and gigantic tax increases just by showing up at their job. Now inflation is going to skyrocket, unemployment is going to skyrocket, the stock market will continue to crash, Traitorapist Trump is going to stick us all with gigantic tax increases, and a possible Great Depression II is around the corner, all because neither of these 2 people could be inconvenienced to show up and do their jobs.

[–] hitstun@fedia.io 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a disgrace to miss the vote, but that's not the only way to neglect their Senate responsibilities. Don't forget to be that angry at every GOP Senator except Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. Those three voted for the bill, but I'm sure there are ways they've betrayed us too.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

every GOP Senator except Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski.

Why are those three assholes getting a pass? At best, they seem to outwardly know what trump is doing is wrong, damaging, and unconstitutional, yet they still enable him to do it. If anything, they should be shamed more.

[–] hitstun@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago

In this case, those three crossed party lines and voted to stop the tariffs. Still, being GOP Senators, they almost certainly betrayed the American people for their orange dictator wannabe in the past. So shame them anyway.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • the ones who skipped it are republicans (read: fascists)
  • if you believe it was anything other than a completely intentional bit of political smokescreen, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

Edit: fuckin.. Sheldon Whitehouse skipped it…? What the fuck. I had missed that. Welp; this is America, and betrayal of principles is the new black nowadays

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Edit: fuckin… Sheldon Whitehouse skipped it…?

Yeah, this was shady as fuck.