{"id":37641,"date":"2025-04-01T21:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/senate-republicans-consider-joining-democrats-to-oppose-trump-over-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:12:49","slug":"senate-republicans-consider-joining-democrats-to-oppose-trump-over-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/senate-republicans-consider-joining-democrats-to-oppose-trump-over-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans consider joining Democrats to oppose Trump over tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican defections would amount to rare public rebuke as concerns mount over impact of president\u2019s plans<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/01\/donald-trump-elon-musk-special-elections-florida-wisconsin-texas-arizona-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the eve of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> so-called \u201cLiberation Day\u201d for tariffs, a handful of Senate Republicans are debating whether to defy the president and join Democrats to stop the US from imposing levies on Canadian imports.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, offered by the Democratic senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tim-kaine\">Tim Kaine<\/a> of Virginia, would terminate the emergency order that Trump is using to justify tariffs against Canada, citing the flow of fentanyl across the US\u2019s northern border. The vote is largely symbolic \u2013 the House is not expected to take up the measure \u2013 but several defections would amount to a rare and notable rebuke of the president by his own party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/01\/senate-republicans-trump-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican defections would amount to rare public rebuke as concerns mount over impact of president\u2019s plans US politics live \u2013 latest updates On the eve of Donald Trump\u2019s so-called \u201cLiberation Day\u201d for tariffs, a handful of Senate Republicans are debating whether to defy the president and join Democrats to stop the US from imposing levies &#8230; <a title=\"Senate Republicans consider joining Democrats to oppose Trump over tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/senate-republicans-consider-joining-democrats-to-oppose-trump-over-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senate Republicans consider joining Democrats to oppose Trump over tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}