Republicans rebuke Trump's 50% emergency tariffs on Brazil in Senate vote

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Senate Republicans supplied a uncommon rebuke in opposition to President Donald Trump and his commerce technique on Tuesday, regardless of nonetheless remaining largely in lockstep amid the continued authorities shutdown.

A handful of Senate Republicans joined Senate Democrats to finish Trump’s use of emergency powers to implement steep, 50% tariffs on Brazil . Whereas the decision, led by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., superior from the higher chamber, however it may possibly’t be taken up within the Home till early subsequent 12 months.

That’s as a result of Home Republicans just lately handed a rule that might not permit the chamber to contemplate laws coping with Trump’s tariffs till January of subsequent 12 months.

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5 Senate Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, joined all Senate Democrats to advance the decision.

Their defection from their GOP colleagues comes after Vice President JD Vance warned lawmakers to not vote in opposition to Trump’s utilization of tariffs throughout Senate Republicans’ closed-door lunch earlier on Tuesday.

Vance argued after the lunch that tariffs give Trump leverage to craft new commerce offers that profit the nation and urged Republicans to not break ranks in opposition to the president.

"To vote in opposition to that's to strip that unbelievable leverage from the president of america. I feel it is an enormous mistake and I do know most people in there agree with me," he mentioned.

Trump initially used emergency powers to enact stiffer tariffs on Brazil in July and argued "that the scope and gravity of the current insurance policies, practices, and actions of the Authorities of Brazil represent an uncommon and extraordinary risk" to the U.S.

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Vice President JD Vance warned lawmakers to not vote in opposition to Trump’s utilization of tariffs throughout Senate Republicans’ closed-door lunch earlier on Tuesday. (Alex Wong / Getty)

It isn't the primary time the Senate has disapproved of Trump's tariffs. Earlier this 12 months, Republicans joined Democrats to rebuke Trump's emergency declaration for 25% tariffs in opposition to Canada, and so they tried and didn't reject his use of worldwide tariffs.

Kaine additionally has plans to deliver two extra resolutions, one to dam tariffs on Canadian items and the opposite on Trump's world tariffs, later this week.

"It is unnecessary to impose tariffs on Brazil, and it’s simply being achieved to again up the president’s good friend," Kaine informed reporters forward of the vote.

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Senator Tim Kaine, D-Va., speaks throughout a Senate International Relations Committee affirmation listening to in Washington, March 13, 2025. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

Kaine was referring to former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro , who on the time of Trump’s declaration, was being prosecuted for an tried coup after an election loss in 2022. He was sentenced to 27 years in jail in September.

Paul argued that "emergencies are like struggle, famine, twister, not liking somebody's tariffs will not be an emergency."

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" Tariffs are an import tax , they're a tax, not a tax on China," Paul mentioned. "It is a tax on the individuals who purchase stuff from China, that are largely People. Taxes are presupposed to originate within the Home, so I'll proceed to vote to finish the emergency."