Trump tariffs wouldn’t get 30 votes in Senate, longtime GOP senator Phil Gramm says

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Former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX) predicted that if the Senate were to vote on President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda, Republicans would shoot it down.

Gramm, 83, commented in an interview with the Washington Examiner following an event in Washington, D.C., for his new book, which aims to debunk myths about American capitalism. Gramm served for 17 years in the Senate and remains an advocate of free-market capitalism, even as his party, led by Trump and Vice President JD Vance, has drifted toward populism.

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