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The #Senate approved a measure to block some of the #tariffs #Trump has imposed on #Canada, w/a handful of #Republicans joining #Democrats to…halt levies set to take effect this week.

The measure is all but certain to stall in the #House, where #GOP leaders moved preemptively to shut down any attempt to end Trump’s tariffs. But Senate passage on a vote of 51 to 48—hours after Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs on >100 trading partners…, sent a signal of #bipartisan opposition to Trump’s #TradeWar.

The resolution targets the #EmergencyPowers #Trump invoked in Feb to impose sweeping #tariffs on #Canada, a move that has rattled #markets & drawn bipartisan criticism from lawmakers concerned about the economic impact on their states & districts.

#Trump imposed the #tariffs in an EO that cited the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, a Cold War-era #law that has most often been used to impose #sanctions on rogue states & human rights violators. His admin claimed that unchecked #DrugTrafficking from #Canada constituted a dire threat to #NationalSecurity & used it as justification to unilaterally impose 25% tariffs on America’s closest trading partner.
[IOW — BS]

“The president has justified the imposition of these #tariffs on, in my view, a made-up emergency,” said Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia & the lead sponsor of the resolution. “The #fentanyl emergency is from #Mexico & #China. It’s not from #Canada.”

The resolution… seeks to revoke the emergency declaration &, with it, #Trump’s ability to enforce the tariffs set to go into effect on Wednesday.

Sen #RandPaul of Kentucky was the lone #Republican sponsor of the resolution. But 3 other GOP senators who have expressed unease about the potential economic consequences of #Trump’s trade measures joined him in support: #SusanCollins of Maine, #LisaMurkowski of Alaska & #MitchMcConnell of KY.

@Nonilex

How am I agreeing with Aqua Buddha? Has the world gone mad?