McConnell to help deliver bipartisan blow to Trump’s Canadian tariffs

Published April 2, 2025 1:20pm ET



The Senate is poised Wednesday evening to overturn the emergency declaration used by President Donald Trump to invoke Canadian tariffs.

It is a bipartisan rebuke that would mark the greatest policy blemish of Trump’s second term and come just hours after he is set to announce new import taxes on what he has dubbed “Liberation Day” to impose more sweeping tariffs on a host of countries.

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