US Senate votes to end Trump’s global tariffs on more than 100 countries

House Republicans created a rule earlier this year that will block resolutions on the tariffs from getting a floor vote.

When I heard it described, they said basically that the House decided to automatically rubber stamp whatever tariffs Trump made.

Here is the first clause of Article I Section 7 of the US Constitution:

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives;

While this means that they do have the power to create a bill that delegates their authority, it's hard to see this tariff nonsense as anything but an abdication of their constitutional duties and a weakening of the checks and balances that are supposed to be built-in to our democracy.

Maybe the founding fathers never expected representatives to just hand over their power so easily. Like, no matter how idiot-proof you make something, America will always invent a bigger idiot.

So it's not ending anytime soon because the house has to sign off and they're shut down indefinitely as a last ditch effort to keep the Epstein files from getting out

Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, told reporters that the symbolic opposition should catch the president’s attention.

How's that "symbolic opposition" been working out for us for the last 10 months, Tim? We might as well refer to you guys as symbolic representatives at this point.

This is why the people hoping on winning midterms are misguided.

If your message is "don't bother voting", please see yourself out. We no longer have time or patience for that kind of pro-authoritarian propaganda.