A small contingent of Senate Republicans joined with Senate Democrats to reject President Donald Trump’s tariff on Canadian goods. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
"The vice president came up yesterday to try to corral Republicans at their lunch," Kaine said before the lunch. "That shows the White House is worried about defectors on this."
Indeed, their votes against Trump’s tariffs on Canada came after Vice President JD Vance warned Republicans that it would be a "huge mistake" to break with the White House on the president’s tariff strategy, and he argued that using duties on countries across the globe offered leverage to generate better trade deals in return.
Paul, one of the co-sponsors of Kaine’s resolution, has consistently rejected Trump’s usage of tariffs and argued that it was a tax on consumers in the U.S. rather than on foreign countries.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives for a vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 28, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump railed against the ad, which was run by the government of Ontario, Canada, and declared, "ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED," in a post on Truth Social.
The latest tariff vote is the second in a trio of resolutions from Kaine and several Senate Democrats. Despite the resolution terminating Trump’s emergency powers on tariffs in Brazil and Canada both advancing in the Senate, they will likely stall in the House.
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McConnell staked his position against the tariffs in a statement, where he argued that retaliatory tariffs have negatively affected Kentucky farmers and distillers.
"Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule. And no cross-eyed reading of Reagan will reveal otherwise," he said. "This week, I will vote in favor of resolutions to end emergency tariff authorities."
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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