Four Senate Republicans join Democrats in blocking Trump's Canada tariffs

The Senate in a rare bipartisan move on Wednesday night voted in effect to reject President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported goods from Canada, voting 51-48 to reject the national emergency declaration the president issued earlier this year.

The vote took place just hours after Trump announced broader tariffs on all imported goods into the U.S., which included lifting a halt on tariffs against Canada and Mexico over their failure to end the illegal flow of fentanyl across their borders.

Four Republican senators joined all Senate Democrats to approve the resolution, which was introduced by Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, which would end the national emergency declaration.

Those Republicans are Kentucky Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, according to Politico. 

"When McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, [Republicans] lost 50% of their seats," Paul told reporters. "In the early 1930s, we lost the House and Senate for 60 years. So not only [are they] bad economically, they are bad politically."

Although the legislation passed the Republican-led Senate, it is not expected to pass the House or be signed by Trump.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.