Vice President Vance casts tie-breaking Senate vote to kill bipartisan effort to rebuke Trump’s trade policy | CNN Politics
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Vice President JD Vance late Wednesday cast a tie-breaking vote to kill a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s tariffs in the Senate.

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.

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    2·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    2·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago
      • 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

    • UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Were you beaten as a child? Exploited for labor, derided for showing emotions? What lessons do you think that kind of suffering teaches? Do you think suffering builds character?

      You say you are “willing to take the pain.” Then immediately admit you won’t feel as much pain as your ‘lessers’ but it’s okay because it’ll teach them. Those ‘unlucky others’ are people who will die. Do you hate your neighbors so much you will let them die after they’ve been lied to and gaslit by the owning class for decades?

      Hurt people have two options; keep hurting those around them, or do their best to advocate, educate, and protect their community from further harm.

      Which do you think works better in the long run?

      • Mossy Feathers (She/Her)@pawb.social
        1·
        3 months ago

        Were you beaten as a child? Exploited for labor, derided for showing emotions? What lessons do you think that kind of suffering teaches? Do you think suffering builds character?

        I looked through their comments because I was curious if they’re actually a piece of shit, or if they’re just having a bad take or a bad day. No, that’s actually what they believe. They have some fascinating opinions on how zoomers and gen alpha are effectively inferior to millennials.

      • btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        The country didn’t vote to give Traitorapist Trump the power to illegally bypass the authority of congress. And nobody was expecting that Trump was going to impose way worse tariffs than the Smoot Hawley Tariffs of 1930 which created 23.6% unemployment 2 years later and was passed by congress, not illegally imposed by a president.

    • Mossy Feathers (She/Her)@pawb.social
      0·
      3 months ago

      Wow. Let’s start with your flawed philosophy. A lot of people who voted for Harris will get fucked by these tariffs too. If anything, Harris voters will likely get fucked even harder than the Trump voters. The trump voters are more likely to be rural and have the space and means to grow a garden with which to feed themselves. Urban voters - the ones most likely to vote for Harris - are unlikely to have the space or time for such a luxury. So again, while Trump voters will feel the burn too, they’re far less likely to be hurt as badly as the Harris voters will. Yet, here you are, wanting to hurt people because Harris voters need to learn to not vote for Trump or something. What an unintelligent take.

      As for your personality…

      What a completely unempathetic piece of shit you appear to be. I hope you’re disowned so you lose access to your fruit basket, you privileged asshole. Furthermore, I feel bad for anyone who’s required to be around you; your very presence should be considered a form of domestic abuse. No one deserves to be cursed with your existence and I sincerely feel sorry for any friends or family members who have been forced to tolerate you out of a sense of kinship. They do not deserve to be forced to tolerate someone who displays such a sociopathic lack of empathy and willingness to sacrifice others for your own benefit.

      I’m actually pissed off that people like you exist.

        • Mossy Feathers (She/Her)@pawb.social
          0·
          3 months ago

          I voted for Harris. I’m a trans gal stuck in Texas who won’t be going anywhere as the result of a lease and lack of money to just pick up and leave. The meds I need to function are expensive, and right now I’m going through withdrawals for one of them because I haven’t had the time to find a new doctor to get more because Trump’s America is already fucking people over and caused my psychiatrist’s office to close down; which is part of the reason why I’m on a hair trigger right now. The other part of it is that I’m sick and disgusted by people like you. I cannot find the words to express the utter revulsion that I experience for someone like you. Just because you voted for Harris doesn’t mean your disgusting, self-centered attitude isn’t part of the reason why we’re here in the first place.

          I’m so fucking glad that you’re gonna be safe and well fed in your pretty little ivory tower that you’ve built; but the rest of us are gonna be fucking miserable at best and the fact that you’ve supposedly helped a small group of people doesn’t absolve you of your shitty, sociopathic desire to throw everyone else under the bus regardless of background or political views, just so that you can get back at the people who have wronged you. Just because you’re “on the right side of history” by voting progressive doesn’t mean you get to throw everyone who lacks the means to protect themselves under the bus.

          “Yeah, well, I got mine, lmao”

          Go fuck yourself, you miserable excuse for a questionably human being. I hope when Trump starts rounding up people wholesale, then you’ll be one of the first to go.