Three US Republican senators who voted to block Trump’s tariffs give reasons

Three Republicans in the United States of America Senate voted in support of the resolution to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The Republican senators are Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. They voted for the measure to block Trump’s tariff in a rare rebuke of the president from within his own party, along with all present Democrats and Independents.

Paul, who co-sponsored the measure, explained that the Trump administration’s tariff spree is having a negative impact on the US economy and stock market.

According to him, his Republican colleagues are privately expressing consternation over Mr. Trump’s trade war but have carefully calibrated their public responses to defer to the president.

“It’s still a debate worth having, because, you know, if a month from now we have massive tariffs go on, and we have a massive sell-off in the stock market, and we didn’t have a first good quarter in growth, and if it’s worse again in the second quarter, people would start asking, ‘Is it good policy, or is it a bad policy?” He queried.

Despite the three senators’ bipartisan support to halt Trump’s administration’s national emergency declaration, the US Senate rejected the measure.

The US Senate voted deadlocked at 49 to 49. With the absence of Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, and Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, who backed a similar resolution, Trump triumphed after Vice President JD Vance went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday evening to cast the deciding vote.

DAILY POST reports that on April 2, Trump announced sweeping 10 percent global reciprocal tariffs on all imports in the US, which caused major shocks across worldwide economies.

Meanwhile, days later, Trump declared a 90-day tariff pause on countries except China, saying that “people were getting afraid.”

Three US Republican senators who voted to block Trump’s tariffs give reasons