APRIL 4, 2025 |
Photo – Senator John Barrasso – Bigfoot99 file photo
In Washington this week, Senator John Barrasso came out on the losing side of a vote protesting President Donald Trump’s new tariffs policy aimed at Canada. The Republican whip said the senate vote was meaningless.
The measure will likely pass the House of Representatives where Democrats don’t hold as much power.
In the senate, four Republicans joined with Democrats to protest the new policy on tariffs. Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted with Democrats to tilt the vote 51-48 against the tariffs. All the Democrats in the senate voted for the resolution.
Senator Barrasso called the vote “meaningless” and “dead on arrival” in the House.
In February, the President issued a declaration of emergency that imposed a 25% tariff hike on most goods produced in Canada and imported into the United States.
The president issued the tariff in response to drugs and migrants coming into the U.S. across the northern border but made some exceptions.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul blasted the tariff on the floor as a tax on American people.
Audio PlayerPresident Trump announced an across-the-board tariff this week of 10% on all imports coming into the United States starting this weekend. For some countries, the rate is even higher.
U.S. Stocks slumped on Thursday, posting their biggest single-day drop since the onset of the national COVID 19 freakout in 2020.
On the positive side, General Motors announced on Thursday that it will increase production of light-duty trucks at its Fort Wayne Assembly Plant in Fort Wayne and hire several hundred workers.
