Bill to to revoke Trump's "emergency order" to bypass congress in proclaiming tariffs failed because two senators were absent.
Bill to to revoke Trump's "emergency order" to bypass congress in proclaiming tariffs failed because two senators were absent.
Vice President JD Vance late Wednesday cast a tie-breaking vote to kill a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s tariffs in the Senate.
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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The two senators were not absent, they voted no.
Oh and a reminder to contact your senator, especially if they're Democrats, and let them know this intentional absence to kill the bill is absolutely unacceptable.
What do you mean?
They’re implying that they were purposefully absent to avoid actually voting no on paper, but to accomplish the same goal of voting no and making sure the bill failed
Oh right. That's basically what absent is, at least in practice right? Not exactly I know.
From another article on the matter.
Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News reported Wednesday night that there was "some consternation" among rank-and-file Democratic senators at party leadership, which had scheduled the vote for Wednesday evening despite apparently knowing Whitehouse would be absent.
This was intentional by Democratic leadership under the ineffective, incompetent, and corrupt Schumer.