McConnell to help deliver bipartisan blow to Trump’s Canadian tariffs

McConnell to help deliver bipartisan blow to Trump’s Canadian tariffs


The Senate is poised Wednesday evening to overturn the emergency declaration used by President Donald Trump to invoke Canadian tariffs.

It is a bipartisan rebuke that would mark the greatest policy blemish of Trump’s second term and come just hours after he is set to announce new import taxes on what he has dubbed “Liberation Day” to impose more sweeping tariffs on a host of countries.

At least four Republican senators — Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Rand Paul (R-KY), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) — are primed to break rank and support a privileged measure from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) that the GOP-led chamber is forced to vote on. It requires only a simple majority and would roll back Trump’s declared fentanyl emergency used to

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