A Senate Vote to Reverse Trump's Tariffs on Canada Is Testing Republican Support

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: US News and World Report/AP

April 1, 2025, at 12:04 a.m.


WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. Republicans have watched with some unease as the president's attempts to remake global trade have sent the stock market downward, but they have so far stood by Trump's on-again-off-again threats to levy taxes on imported goods.

Even as the resolution from Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia offered them a potential off-ramp to the tariffs levied on Canadian imports, Republican leaders were trying to keep senators in line by focusing on fentanyl that comes into the U.S. over its northern border. It was yet another example of how Trump is not only reorienting global economics, but upending his party's longtime support for ideas like free trade.

“I really relish giving my Republican colleagues the chance to not just say they're concerned, but actually take an action to stop these tariffs,” Kaine told The Associated Press in an interview last week.

Kaine's resolution would end the emergency declaration that Trump signed in February to implement tariffs on Canada as punishment for not doing enough to halt the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. If the Senate passes the resolution, it would still need to be taken up by the Republican-controlled House.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-04-01/a-senate-vote-to-reverse-trumps-tariffs-on-canada-is-testing-republican-support

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Link to PRESS RELEASE - Kaine, Klobuchar, and Warner Announce Expected Vote Timing on their Bill to Undo Canada Tariffs that will Raise Costs

Link to RESOLUTION DESCRIPTION site - Kaine, Klobuchar & Warner Formally File Legislation to Undo President Trump’s Senseless Taxes on Canadian Goods

Link to DRAFT RESOLUTION (PDF) - https://www.kaine.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ros25392.pdf

[ananda]

1. I expect the Republcans will show nothing but cowardice...

being the Trump/Musk sycophants (read whores) that they are.

[bluestarone]

2. I won't disagree here, but

Number one get them on record. Number two, I think some WILL vote against these.

[ananda]

14. Agree!

!!!

[Irish_Dem]

6. We will find out who are on the Putin/Musk payroll.

[ananda]

15. All them or just most.

Enquiring minds and all.

[Irish_Dem]

16. All of them is probably the correct answer.

[kkmarie]

3. Yes!

Make them own it!

[groundloop]

4. Speaking of the flow of illegal goods across international borders.......

What about all of the illegal weapons that the US exports to other countries every year? I'm surprised Canada, Mexico, and others aren't screaming bloody murder about that.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

5. Mexico is for sure, and I think those efforts will get even more forceful as the tariff battles....

...heat up. I believe the lawsuit they filed four years ago is just the opening salvo, and this will likely work as a counter argument to the emergency declaration used to justify the tariffs.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-mexico-guns-sandy-hook-4a3b726ffd7aabf4eee5d0225dd51769

[walkingman]

7. If these tariffs are not put on and then pulled back then we will more than

likely see the price of imported goods and autos increase in the next few weeks/months.

Not only will prices for ta riffed goods increase but for goods and services in general - when one segment of our society it gives a green light for everyone to do the same - we saw this during covid.

It is really a dumb idea, countries will not just sit idly by but will put tariffs on our exports as well. Using tariffs as economic warfare can sometimes lead to physical conflict - both domestic and internationally.

[calimary]

8. There'll be a new slogan: "it's the instability, stupid."

[Historic NY]

9. I don't expect Canada to back off or go back they have chartered a new course

and its isn't going to rely on the US.

[TheRickles]

10. Does this need 51 votes, or 60, to carry?

The former is possible, the latter is very doubtful.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. I think being a "Resolution"

it may be subject to the 60-vote threshold (cloture). BUT I think the point in this case, given we're in the minority, is to put them all "on the record".

[c-rational]

11. Do it.

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. Republicans have somehow convinced their voters that the 59lbs of Fentanyl siezed at the norther border

2022-2024 vs the 61,900lbs siezed at the southern border is a monumental problem that requires a tariff war to help cripple the worlds economies.
These people all need to face an angry MOB.

https://www.canada.ca/en/privy-council/services/canada-fentanyl-czar/key-data.html