Sen. Tim Kaine: I will force a Senate vote on tariffs. Trump attempted to circumvent Congress with phony emergency.
By Curt_Anderson March 5, 2025 8:30 pm Category: Government (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Here is another case where a Trump policy is unpopular with and harms his voter base.
Tim Kaine:
I'm challenging the president's tariffs on Canada because, since he did it by emergency order, I can file a challenge and force the Senate to vote on it.
The president is imposing these tariffs pursuant to a declared emergency. Now we know the president is declaring emergencies not really because of an emergency, but he just wants to bypass Congress. Last week, I forced a vote on a president's declared energy emergency. He said we're in an energy emergency even though America is producing more energy than we ever have in the history of this country. We voted on it last week. No Republicans would break with the president, but I'm now going to challenge the Canadian tariffs.
He cited fentanyl at the border, but the fentanyl issue is not a real issue with Canada. There's more fentanyl that goes from the U.S. to Canada than from Canada to the U.S. And it's a footnote to the real fentanyl problem, which is China and Mexico. So he's just inventing this Canadian emergency to start a trade war that's going to hurt Virginians.
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Here is another case where a Trump policy is unpopular with and harms his voter base. 