Bill to to revoke Trump's "emergency order" to bypass congress in proclaiming tariffs failed because two senators were absent.
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.
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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:
C) Fuck the entire Republican party.
D) Fuck the Democrats for not standing up to this shit.
lmao, they actually abolished time to ignore their responsibilities. Is it possible to learn this power?
Trying to think of how to leverage this precedent to my advantage but all I can come up with is that work only has to pay me for 1 day “for the remainder of the 119th congress.”
How the fuck are they just allowing this to happen?
I thought Mitch McConnell was vocally anti-Trump now and critical of his tariffs?
McConnell and the disease that is conservative culture enabled all of this.
Only when it doesn't directly inconvenience him. McConnel has fallen from this, like, dark Talleyrand figure to just another fucking schmuck.
I love your username ⊃🍲
Thank you!
Wow, like usual just a vote or two away…
I’m starting to think it’s not an accident.
Wait till the MAGA win the midterms with 89% of the vote
If that happens armed rebellion is a requirement, not just a far off last resort.
you are already there... stop moving the goal post
Doing my part from Canada
Because it isn't.
That's obviously because deep state shadow government reptiles. Afterall, all maga believes that, and there is so many of them, they can't all be mistaken.
This is what happens when people vote blue no matter who.
You remind me of those "capitalism is socialism" memes. "this happens when we vote blue!", points at a situation where everyone explicitly didn't vote blue.
Still better than giving the MAGAts larger margins. We need to get better at primaries though.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
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.
It's a disgrace to miss the vote, but that's not the only way to neglect their Senate responsibilities. Don't forget to be that angry at every GOP Senator except Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. Those three voted for the bill, but I'm sure there are ways they've betrayed us too.
Why are those three assholes getting a pass? At best, they seem to outwardly know what trump is doing is wrong, damaging, and unconstitutional, yet they still enable him to do it. If anything, they should be shamed more.
Ah, I thought they blocked with their republican counterparts.
They have done that in the past, acknowledged that what was happening was wrong, and then voting to allow it to happen. I'm not clearing them because they made one tiny stumble quietly in the right direction.
Rand Paul is a hard core classical libertarian. He will always vote for whatever creates less federal or presidential power. Doesn't matter if it's Democrats or Republicans presenting the bill.
Like fuck he is.
In this case, those three crossed party lines and voted to stop the tariffs. Still, being GOP Senators, they almost certainly betrayed the American people for their orange dictator wannabe in the past. So shame them anyway.
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
The rotating villain strikes again! https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2023/05/05/the-democratic-party-is-untenable/
Yeah, this was shady as fuck.
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.
The collapse of horror is not inherently horror.
That's some fine hyperbole amigo! But yes, the market had a minor shudder, in a market that should never blink, and in times where it should historically start getting pumped.
Economist chatter isn’t pleasant right now. I didn’t pull this idea out of a black hole.
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/email-sheldon/
Tell the useless fucking sack of shit Sheldon how you feel about him abandoning his post and choosing to support Nazis instead of his constituents.
The two senators were not absent, they voted no.
Oh and a reminder to contact your senator, especially if they're Democrats, and let them know this intentional absence to kill the bill is absolutely unacceptable.
What do you mean?
They’re implying that they were purposefully absent to avoid actually voting no on paper, but to accomplish the same goal of voting no and making sure the bill failed
Oh right. That's basically what absent is, at least in practice right? Not exactly I know.
From another article on the matter.
This was intentional by Democratic leadership under the ineffective, incompetent, and corrupt Schumer.
But ItS tHe RePubIcAnS guys. Ignore the other half just nodding and shrugging. It's the Republicans guys, inaction is not complicity. (Unless it's tHe OtHeR GuYs)
It fucking literally is though.
It's always, always, always all of the republicans causing shit. Usually a few democrats join them, but it's negligible and proves that "but both sides" is a load of BS.
both sides are corporate neolibs, just one is extra fash.
they are both bad, but the republicans are by far way, way worse.
I don't understand your sarcasm in this contextOh. I see it now.
They think they sent a message. They are too stupid to know that no one is home.
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?
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.
Ask a millennial to hook up a horse to a carriage, or to iron a shirt. Shits wild on how uniformed these generations on average are.
Don't mistake your competency with the technology of your generation with superiority.
Sir, this is a Lemmy. Our computers don't have that, they have
GRUBidk,systemd-bootor some shit.EDIT: Of course it's a real thing.
Did you not realize that the younger you are, the worse you are going to be screwed by Traitorapist Trump on: nuclear proliferation from Trump's new world disorder, global warming, spread of Fascism, massive debt on tax cuts for billionaires, gutting of government infrastructure and services, new victimless crimes, etc? The Boomers aren't going to be the ones who pay the worst price for Treason Trump's massive enshitification program.
There's literally no way that wasn't a troll
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.
At least you'll be fine.
Right. Both I and my fiancee voted against Trump. These tariffs are already making our financial situation untenable, and we were one missed paycheck from flat broke before Trump. Do we deserve to suffer too? Do our community, who also opposed Trump? Do we need to be "educated" about the economic hurt we knew was coming, or the tariffs we knew were a stupid fucking idea? You sound hateful in the same way as the MAGA supporters are. Let those I'm better than burn because I can take it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
House would not have passed it and certainly not have enough votes to overcome a Trump veto.
Okay so what are you doing to prepare for this hellishness coming our way?
Okay none of that will help if you actually believe what you said is coming is coming so iDK why you think you're better off than anyone
You're going to get hurt too idiot.
Wow. You suck.
I agree, and I probably won't be fine. A failed dictatorship is better than a successful one.