A bipartisan measure that sought to undo the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump imposed on most countries this month failed in the GOP-led Senate on Wednesday.
The vote ended in a tie, 49-49, with three Republicans — Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — joining all Democrats present in support of the resolution, which was designed to terminate the national emergency Trump declared to implement his global tariffs.
Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who voiced support for the measure, were absent for the vote. It needed a simple majority to pass.
Pretty fucking inaccurate to call it “bipartisan” when all of three senators from the overt fascism party voted for it.
I fucking hate how imbecilic and vapidly breathless our media apparatuses are.
Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who voiced support for the measure, were absent for the vote.
I guess this bill wasn’t that important.
Wasn’t Mitch McConnell complaining about the tariffs just the other day, having spent decades making sure the USA gets to this point? And then when he has the chance to stop them he doesn’t show up? What a guy.
“Bipartisan”
3 out of 51? Bipartisan? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Would have died, at best, on the president’s desk anyway.
And then burn him at the stake (figuratively, of course, for legal reasons)
Democrats really need to plan the votes around the times of day when Moscow Mitch isn’t in the middle of a reboot.
