Vice President Vance casts tie-breaking Senate vote to kill bipartisan effort to rebuke Trump's trade policy

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

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.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune then moved to ensure that tariff opponents were unable to bring their resolution back up at a later date, forcing Vance to the US Capitol to put an end to the matter. It marked just the second time the vice president has used his tie-breaking authority.

In his second term, Trump has placed historic tariffs on a wide variety of imports. He’s put a 10% tariff on virtually everything coming into the United States; imposed 25% tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos and many items from Mexico and Canada; and placed a tariff of at least 145% on most Chinese goods imported to the US in by far the most significant trade action to date.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-push-rebuke-trump-over-230507065.html

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The GOP hates America.

[Hassler]

1. Thanks again Moscow Mitch

[moniss]

2. I don't understand why Whitehouse wasn't there. nt

[AZJonnie]

3. Agree, I would very much like an explanation on that one

If my math is right, he single-handedly could've shut down Trump's nonsense, but didn't?

Only thing I can think of is that Dem's actually want to hang the whole upcoming cataclysm on IQ47 and make Vance be the tie-breaker to make the stink stick to him as well? Maybe?

[moniss]

6. That was supposedly the rationale given for his absence

with a claim that the people would "know for sure" who to blame for the economic impact. Well that's folly since everybody knows already who and what is doing it. So they basically handed the GQP the ability to say "Your complaints are hollow because you had the ability to stop it and you didn't". So the strategy seems to be let it go to hell and hope enough people go with us and vote them out in the mid-terms.

This is ridiculous reasoning because Crumb The 1st and his fascists aren't going let the mid-terms go without massive voter suppression etc. and even if somehow we win both chambers does anybody think they will abide by anything Congress passes. The filibuster will still be there as well as the veto.

Even if we have the Congress and pass the funding bills the fascists have already shown they will cut the funding and force months and months of court cases. It is part of their strategy to cause disruption and delay while they steal the money over to other things. Then if ordered to restore funding it balloons the debt and deficit even further and likewise allows them the propaganda move of blaming the courts and the agencies being funded as being the cause of the problem.

It's like a drunk keeping a responsible spouse locked out of the house while the drunk spends the rent money on booze. Then when the booze is gone the drunk let's the spouse in and the spouse now has to go take a cash advance on the credit card in order to pay the rent. So now their financial situation is even worse but the drunk blames it on the spouse and the credit card advance.

Bottom line is that the drunk got what they wanted and is using something else to deflect responsibility. The House for example was moving a funding bill recently for DHS and it contained $46 billion dollars for border security with over $30 billion of it going to the wall. As Representative Dan Goldman pointed out they included no money for FEMA in the bill but as he said they would all come crying to FEMA for money when a disaster hit. So when they need the money they will point at Medicaid etc. and blame spending there as a reason why they didn't give funding for FEMA. So they get what they wanted initially and then deflect responsibility later.

[LisaM]

7. He was at an environmental summit.

The explanation was easy enough to find, though it appears the vote could have been scheduled for later.

https://www-wpri-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.wpri.com/news/politics/whitehouse-saves-trump-from-rebuke-on-tariffs-by-missing-vote-for-south-korea-trip/amp/?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17460888325055&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wpri.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fwhitehouse-saves-trump-from-rebuke-on-tariffs-by-missing-vote-for-south-korea-trip%2F

[Raven123]

8. Thanks for the link. Outright incompetence.

[Skittles]

4. yes - W T F

JFC

[ReRe]

5. Not one more of those mofos could step forward.

One more. For The People. Nope.
When does the new Congress get sworn in after mid-term elections?
Jan '27? About 20 months or so from now.

[mdbl]

9. GOP are spineless weasels

They don't deserve their positions.

[Canada Kid]

10. Republican BS

Once again the Republican ball lickers cowtow to the Great Orange One to save their jobs and guarantee themselves long term paycheques, rather than do the right thing and vote down the destructive tariff garbage that is ruining economies worldwide. Lay down and kiss ass is the norm within the party, falling in lockstep with the rhetoric whether it is ridiculous, dangerous, malicious, or outright illegal. All Americans are F*CKED!!!