A handful of Republican Senators opposed the President Donald Trump Yesterday Wednesday, they joined the Democrats and adopted a measure – with a symbolic value only – opposition to additional customs duties 25% in products imported by Canada that the US president decided to say.
The text has, in practice, no chance of becoming a law. However, it is a defeat at the level of symbolism Even for Donald Trump in Congress, although the Republican Party controls both bodies and the US president has only met little resistance after returning to the White House on January 20th. With 51 votes against 48, the Senate thus rejected the national emergency declared on the border by President Trump, the argument he cited for the imposition of 25% additional tariffs on Canadian products imported into the US.
Four Republicans supported it, joining their voices with them all of the Democratic Parliamentary Group.
To make the text to be required to require his approval by the other body of the Federal Congress, where Mike Johnson, the Republican spokesman for the House of Representatives, has already made it clear that he will prevent it, and the signature of the President, who is excluded.
“The House will never approve it too, your president, I will never sign it.”Donald Trump via Truth Social, denouncing the “trick” of the Democrats.
The vote was carried out in the Senate shortly after Mr Trump announced a storm of additional customs duties on products imported to the US from all over the world.