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.

  • Mossy Feathers (She/Her)@pawb.social
    103·
    1 个月前

    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.

      • braxy29@lemmy.world
        81·
        1 个月前

        nobody is asking you, personally, to fix it. but your wholehearted embracing of the suffering of others (i mean, at least you will be fine!) to “educate” is a bitter pill for people who are already struggling, and for people who rightly fear they won’t survive as readily as you will.

      • btaf45@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        41·
        1 个月前

        We lost the election and there’s no one to stop Trump. We can’t do anything to stop this.

        Sheldon Whitehouse (D) could have stopped Trump’s tariffs simply by showing up and doing his job, but he didn’t. That’s the whole point of this story.