🚨 SENATE VOTES TO OVERTURN TRUMP’S 50% TARIFF ON BRAZIL.
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The Senate passed a resolution Tuesday aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, with five Republicans joining Democrats in a rare bipartisan rebuke of the president over trade policy.
Sens. Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell sided with Democrats in the 52 to 48 vote.
McConnell has long been critical of Trump’s trade policy, and said in a statement ahead of the vote, “Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule.”
The resolution, however, isn’t expected to be taken up by the House. Earlier this year, Republicans in the chamber added a measure to a procedural rule blocking members from being able to force a vote on the president’s tariffs.
The resolution aims to end the Brazil tariffs by terminating an emergency declaration from the president.
Sen. Tim Kaine, the lead sponsor of the resolution, said before the vote that the president’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was not appropriate, considering that the inciting “emergency” that led to the tariffs was Brazil’s indictment of the country’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro.
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/10/28/politics/senate-brazil-tariff-vote-trump
GROK: President Trump can veto any bill Congress passes to overturn the tariff, as trade authority largely resides with the executive under laws like Section 232. Overriding a veto demands a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers, which is tough given Republican control. This setup lets him enforce the policy unless overridden, aligning with his leverage on trade imbalances.