Vance casts second tiebreaking vote to kill Trump tariffs rebuke

Published May 1, 2025 1:57pm ET



Vice President JD Vance cast his second tiebreaking vote in the Senate late Wednesday, ending a bipartisan effort to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The Senate unexpectedly rejected the budget resolution, which would have blocked Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” by taking back the emergency order Trump used to enact them. 

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