Vice President JD Vance traveled to Capitol Hill late Wednesday to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate that killed a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s trade policy.
Earlier in the evening, the Senate rejected the resolution that would have effectively blocked Trump’s global tariffs by revoking the emergency order the president is using to enact them. Two senators who were set to vote for the resolution, Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent, allowing the resolution to fail 49-49.
A) Their absence was intentional.
B) They can’t anyway, because they’ve already passed a law last month saying that the entire rest of the legislative year is just one calendar day long:
House Republican leaders on Tuesday quietly moved to shield their members from having to vote on whether to end President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, tucking language into a procedural measure that effectively removed their chamber’s ability to undo the levies. NYTimes source.
C) Fuck the entire Republican party.
D) Fuck the Democrats for not standing up to this shit.
The national emergency law lays out a fast-track process for Congress to consider a resolution ending a presidential emergency, requiring committee consideration within 15 calendar days after one is introduced and a floor vote within three days after that. But the language House Republicans inserted in their measure on Tuesday declared that, “Each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day”
lmao, they actually abolished time to ignore their responsibilities. Is it possible to learn this power?
I thought Mitch McConnell was vocally anti-Trump now and critical of his tariffs?
Only when it doesn’t directly inconvenience him. McConnel has fallen from this, like, dark Talleyrand figure to just another fucking schmuck.
Wow, like usual just a vote or two away…
I’m starting to think it’s not an accident.
If that happens armed rebellion is a requirement, not just a far off last resort.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
WTF?? The 2 f*cking assholes missed the most important vote of their entire senate careers. Either one of them could have stopped Trump’s destruction of our economy with his illegal tariffs and gigantic tax increases just by showing up at their job. Now inflation is going to skyrocket, unemployment is going to skyrocket, the stock market will continue to crash, Traitorapist Trump is going to stick us all with gigantic tax increases, and a possible Great Depression II is around the corner, all because neither of these 2 people could be inconvenienced to show up and do their jobs.
It’s a disgrace to miss the vote, but that’s not the only way to neglect their Senate responsibilities. Don’t forget to be that angry at every GOP Senator except Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. Those three voted for the bill, but I’m sure there are ways they’ve betrayed us too.
every GOP Senator except Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski.
Why are those three assholes getting a pass? At best, they seem to outwardly know what trump is doing is wrong, damaging, and unconstitutional, yet they still enable him to do it. If anything, they should be shamed more.
Why are those three assholes getting a pass?
I believe the “those three voted for the bill” part of the comment to which you’re replying answers that. That bill was the one proposed to block the tariffs.
yet they still enable him to do it. If anything, they should be shamed more.
How so?
- the ones who skipped it are republicans (read: fascists)
- if you believe it was anything other than a completely intentional bit of political smokescreen, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Edit: fuckin… Sheldon Whitehouse skipped it…? What the fuck. I had missed that. Welp; this is America, and betrayal of principles is the new black nowadays
The rotating villain strikes again! https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2023/05/05/the-democratic-party-is-untenable/
The bond market is failing. If that reaches fruition the economy collapses, including the banks.
Either Trumps own people turn against him or this horrific outcome may happen.
That’s some fine hyperbole amigo! But yes, the market had a minor shudder, in a market that should never blink, and in times where it should historically start getting pumped.
