{"id":14967,"date":"2025-10-28T23:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-votes-against-trumps-50-percent-tariff-on-brazil\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:31:56","slug":"senate-votes-against-trumps-50-percent-tariff-on-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-votes-against-trumps-50-percent-tariff-on-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate votes against Trump\u2019s 50 percent tariff on Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Senate once again rebuked President Donald Trump on tariffs, a vote that comes as the president is in Asia touting tariffs and notching progress on trade agreements.<\/p>\n

Senators on Tuesday voted 52-48 to terminate the national emergency Trump declared in order to impose 50 percent tariffs on most Brazilian goods<\/a> in July. Five Republican Senators joined the Democrats in the vote: Thom Tillis<\/a> (N.C.), Susan Collins<\/a> (Maine), Lisa Murkowski<\/a> (Alaska), Mitch McConnell<\/a> (Ky.) and Rand Paul<\/a> (Ky.), the measure\u2019s co-sponsor.<\/p>\n

The vote \u2014 the first in a series of three expected resolutions aiming to block President Trump\u2019s tariffs on Brazil and Canada as well as his widespread global tariffs \u2014 comes amid bubbling tension in the Senate over how Trump\u2019s trade war has affected farmers and small businesses.<\/p>\n

Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments over whether Trump has overstepped his authority by using an emergency law to impose tariffs on nearly every country in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmergencies are like war, famine [and] tornadoes,\u201d said Paul, the most vocal opponent of Trump\u2019s tariffs in the Senate. \u201cNot liking someone\u2019s tariffs is not an emergency. It\u2019s an abuse of the emergency power and it\u2019s Congress abdicating their traditional role in taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the vote remains largely symbolic: Republican leaders in the House have blocked the chamber from voting to overrule the tariffs until March, protecting Republican members who are facing blowback from home state farmers and small businesses angry over the economic impact.<\/p>\n

Sen. Ron Wyden<\/a> (D-Ore.), a co-sponsor on the Canada and global tariff resolutions, said he is hearing rising discontent among \u201cRepublican senators who go home and they just feel like they\u2019re getting hit by a trade wrecking ball.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople come up and say \u2018the tariffs are killing us.\u2019 You go to the grocery store and everybody\u2019s up in arms,\u201d continued Wyden, a ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees trade issues.<\/p>\n

Trump announced that he would impose a 50 percent tariff in July<\/a>, in response to what he felt was an unfair legal case against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro \u2014 a Trump ally \u2014 over his role in attempting to overturn the results of the country\u2019s 2022 election, as well as over a Brazil\u2019s policies on digital content, which has ensnared U.S. social media companies.<\/p>\n

In his order imposing the tariffs, Trump declared a national emergency over \u201cthe scope and gravity of the recent policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Brazil constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

That order has received pushback from some in Congress, including Sen. Tim Kaine<\/a> (D-Va.), who argued that by allowing the president to declare an emergency over a country\u2019s treatment of a political ally would open the door to broader use of national emergencies to govern.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t lie and say there\u2019s an energy emergency when there isn\u2019t,\u201d said Kaine, who sponsored the resolution. \u201cDon\u2019t lie and say Brazil\u2019s prosecution of a president is an emergency when it\u2019s not. Don\u2019t use the lie to increase the price of coffee by 40 percent in a year. Don\u2019t use the lie to punish a country with whom we have a trade surplus. Don\u2019t lie and don\u2019t hurt my citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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