President Trump is livid after learning that four Senate Republicans are reportedly prepared to vote to sabotage his tariff policy on Canada.
As Fox News reported, leftist Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) has sponsored a resolution joint resolution that would terminate the national emergency Trump declared regarding illicit drugs and Canada. Trump has argued tariffs are necessary not just to curb the drug flow but also to rebalance an unfair trading relationship between the two countries.
The Senate is scheduled to vote on Kaine’s resolution this afternoon. While passage would not mean the tariffs evaporate, considering the House is unlikely to ever vote on the measure, voting against Canadian tariffs would hand the Democrats a powerful talking point and humiliate Trump in the process.
To add insult to injury, the vote is taking place on what Trump has declared “Liberation Day,” where he is set to unleash new reciprocal tariffs to bring back American jobs.
Only four GOPers need to join all 47 Democrats in backing Kaine for the resolution to win approval in the Senate. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine appear ready to defy Trump.
Paul is a co-sponsor of Kaine’s resolution, while Murkowski told Politico she will vote for it. The outlet reports Collins is “very likely” to join them while McConnell has repeatedly criticized Trump’s tariffs.
In a Truth Social post this morning, Trump demanded the four Republicans back off and hold Canada accountable for allowing fentanyl to flow freely into America.
“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy,” Trump wrote.
Trump added that by flirting with joining the left, the four GOPers are playing with the lives of ordinary Americans and right into the hands of the Democratic Party. He further vowed to veto the measure if it ever reached his desk.
“They are playing with the lives of the American people, and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels,” he stated. “The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, in that it is not going anywhere because the House will never approve it and I, as your President, will never sign it.”
Trump closed his rant by accusing the Republicans of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) and being disloyal to him, the Republican Party, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD).
“Why are they allowing Fentanyl to pour into our Country unchecked, and without penalty?” Trump wondered. “What is wrong with them, other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly known as TDS?”
Who can want this to happen to our beautiful families, and why? To the people of the Great States of Kentucky, Alaska, and Maine, please contact these Senators and get them to FINALLY adhere to Republican Values and Ideals. They have been extremely difficult to deal with and, unbelievably, disloyal to hardworking Majority Leader John Thune and the Republican Party itself. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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