The resolution passed by 51-48 votes, as 4 Republicans joined the Democrats: Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell.
The paper adopted aims to nullify the emergency situation which Trump announced and which enabled it to impose 25-percent. customs duties on goods from Canada.
Symbolic nature of the vote
The authoritative reason for the introduction of duties was to halt the smuggling of fentanyl into the US, although only a fraction of the percent of the drug is smuggled from Canada to America.
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"The legislature has just passed our bill aimed at freeing America from the irresponsible and inflationary trade war between Trump and Canada, which only helps finance its taxation cuts for billionaires, while the bills for this gotta pay families," stated Democratic leader in the legislature Chuck Schumer.
The vote has a mainly symbolic dimension, due to the fact that despite the adoption of the resolution, a akin vote in the home of Representatives and the signature of the president is needed in order to lift the emergency. In order to put the paper to the vote, it is essential to approve the president of the home of Mike Johnson, who has so far supported Trump's trade movements and again praised the introduction of fresh duties on Wednesday, which the president called America's " Declaration of economical Independence".
Trump's appels did nothing. Rebellion in Republican ranks
Senators Collins and Murkowski, belonging to the average wing of the party, come from states (Maine and Alaska) adjacent and mostly dependent on trade with Canada, America's largest trading partner. McConnell has long been Trump's longstanding critic for free trade, and Paul is simply a typical of the libertarian wing of the party, opposed to any taxation increase.
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On Wednesday, Trump urged 4 not to vote in favour of the resolution. He suggested that the duties imposed by him would increase the prices of the illicit drug and make it ‘more costly in distribution and sales’.
– They're playing with the lives of Americans, all in favour of extremist left-wing Democrats and drug cartels. The legislature resolution is simply a trick of Democrats to show and exposure the weakness of any Republicans, namely those 4 due to the fact that they are not going anywhere due to the fact that the home will never approve it, and I, as your president, will never sign it," declared the President.
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