The U.S. Senate just voted 51-47 to END ALL of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs.

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The Senate voted Thursday to approve a resolution that would block President Trump’s tariffs on countries around the world, the third in a trio of rebukes of the president’s trade policy this week.

In a 51 to 47 vote, four Republicans joined Democrats to approve the resolution. Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky, along with Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, supported the resolution. It was not subject to the 60-vote threshold needed for most legislation, requiring just a simple majority.

The resolution is largely symbolic since it almost certainly won’t be taken up by the House, where GOP leaders have taken steps to prevent lawmakers from forcing a vote on the president’s tariffs. Senate Democrats forced a vote on the resolution, which was led by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, by bypassing GOP leadership using a provision of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the law that the president invoked to impose the tariffs.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-vote-trump-global-tariffs-emergency/

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