Washington – A fundamental group of Senate Republicans will deliver a symbolic rebuke to the tariffs of President Donald Trump about Canadian products while intensified his broader commercial war on Wednesday.
Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, became early in the last Republican to support a democratic resolution to block Trump’s Canadian rates. Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Has also supported the measure, and is also expected that Senator Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican. And the main author of the resolution, Senator Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, said Senator Mitch McConnell, Ky Republican, told him that he would also vote for it.
The support of these four Republicans would give the proposal enough votes to approve in the Senate if the 47 Democrats also vote in favor.
“I will support this resolution and urge my colleagues to do it in the same way,” Collins said in a speech on the Senate floor. “If these tariffs enter into force, it will be very harmful. And as the price walks always do, they will hurt those who can pay them less.”
Collins passed through industries in Maine, which would be particularly affected by a commercial war, such as lobsters, blueberry producers and potato farmers.
In Kentucky, home to a flourishing bourbon industry of $ 9 billion, the distillmen are dealing with boycots and retaliation rates of Canada.
“Tariffs in Canada will threaten us with a recession. I mean, it’s a terrible and terrible idea,” Paul told journalists on Wednesday.
The resolution will not go anywhere in the camera controlled by the Republican party, but the step in the Senate would represent a shameful reprimand of Trump’s commercial policies of the members of their own party.
Republicans also control the Senate, but the Democrats, led by Kaine, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia and Senator Amy Klobuchar de Minnesota, can use a legislative procedure to force a vote to end the national emergency that Trump is using to carry out her tariffs. A simple majority is needed to approve the resolution.
“Many of my republican colleagues in Congress have already expressed concern about these rates, so the next vote of the Senate about our legislation gives senators the perfect opportunity to show Americans to defend their constituents and invest the disastrous economic policies of the president,” Kaine said.
He added that McConnell personally informed him on Tuesday that he would support the measure to finish Trump’s rates.
“I said: ‘I want to talk to you about my bill of Canadian rates.’
In a real social publication on Wednesday, Trump highlighted the four Republicans of the Senate by name and urged them to reject the resolution of Canada. The president has argued that these specific tariffs are necessary because Canada is not doing enough to stop the fentanyl and other illegal drugs of
“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins de Maine, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Rand Paul, also from Kentucky, hopefully they will face the Republican car, for a change,” Trump wrote.
“The Senate’s bill is just a ploy of the Democrats to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, since it will not go anywhere because the Chamber will never approve it and I, as its president, will never sign it,” he continued.
In a White House event on Wednesday, Trump formally announced reciprocal tariffs about some of the largest commercial partners in the United States, including key allies such as Canada, Mexico and the European Union. They include a 25% tariff in all foreign manufacturing cars, from midnight.
“This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in the history of the United States. It is our declaration of economic independence,” Trump said in a Jardin de Rosas speech. “For years, worker American citizens were forced to sit outside as other nations became rich and powerful, much of this to our coast. But now it is our turn to prosper. Work and factories will return to our country … This will be, in fact, the Golden Age of the United States.”
In a letter to the Republicans of the Chamber and the Senate this week, the president of the conservative group for the president of Growth, David Mcintosh, warned about “the continuous anticipation of a volatile economic impact caused by tariffs, including the imminent” day of liberation “, on April 2, 2025, where Trump tariffs will be potentially affected to all countries.”
“What do these executive actions mean on tariffs for Congress? It is likely that Republicans lose their majorities in the elections of mid -period unless immediate measures are taken in favor of growth,” McIntosh wrote. “That is why it is so important that Republicans in Capitol Hill extend and expand Trump’s tax cuts in 2017 and reduce federal expenditure to tame central inflation.”
