Which makes this guys 'political piece speculation' bullshit. They voted against this tariff bill hours before he wrote his piece. Who's zooming who? Sounds more like a planned damaged control. Even though the author leans left, which makes it more bothersome.
Republicans in Congress Growing Uneasy Over Trump's Economy Bad economic data is beginning to fuel a retreat from Trump heading into the midterms
This mother fucker thune is probably the new mitch the turtle... stop everything no matter what it is from dems. Every single repub and some dems have all put their personal agendas and aspirations ahead of democracy. Such short sighted pigs.
Leader Thune and Senate Republicans tonight voted to keep the Trump tariff-tax in place. They own the Trump tariffs and higher costs on America's middle-class families," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.
Sheldon Whitehouse was the Dem who wasn't there for the vote. He's a great guy, and very responsible, so I don't get what happened. The vote was 49-49. Presumably both Mitch and the missing Dem, Sheldon Whitehouse, would have voted to disallow the tariffs.
But in any case, there was never any hope that it would have passed in the House, which would have been necessary.