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| https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases/us-senate-rebukes-trump-and-rejects-emergency-global-tariffs | U.S. Senate Rebukes Trump & Rejects ‘Emergency’ Global Tariffs | 2025-10-30 | 2025 | 2025-10 | Democrat | Senate | RI | Jack Reed | R000122 | www.reed.senate.gov | jackreed | https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases | scraper | WASHINGTON, DC – In a resounding rebuke of President Donald Trump’s costly and reckless economic policies, the U.S. Senate voted on a bipartisan basis, 51-47, to reject Trump’s tariffs on a global scale. U.S. Senator Jack Reed was among the majority of U.S. Senators voting to approve the resolution and block Trump’s tariffs. Today’s vote marked the fourth time the Senate came together on a bipartisan basis in support of a resolution to terminate Trump’s misuse of emergency powers to enact steep tariffs on American consumers. Under the guise of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977, President Trump declared he would enact a tariff of 10 percent or higher on countries across globe. His executive order sought to proclaim a “national emergency arising from conditions reflected in large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits” as a reason to impose the tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner. “President Trump’s unwarranted tariffs increased prices and punished American consumers and businesses alike. Despite the President’s claims, American companies, small businesses, and consumers – not foreign companies – are paying nearly all of the costs of his tariffs, with Goldman Sachs estimating that foreign companies paid less than 10 percent of tariff costs this summer. Researchers at Yale estimate American families will pay an extra $1,700 this year due to President Trump’s tariffs. This bipartisan rebuke of Trump’s reckless tariffs is a positive step forward for consumers. But the job won’t be done unless Speaker Johnson (R-LA) reconvenes the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington to finish the job,” said Senator Reed. “Historians and economists across the political spectrum agree that IEEPA was never meant to authorize tariffs, and for its nearly fifty years of existence, no president sought to abuse and ignore the law this way until President Trump came along trying to seize new power and authority for himself at the expense of everyday Americans and by upending the constitutional order. The Senate’s previous three votes were narrowly targeted at specific tariffs on Brazil and Canada, while the latest vote was in support of ending the so-called ‘national emergency’ Trump used to try to justify “reciprocal” tariffs on countries around the world. Four Republican Senators crossed party lines in voting to disapprove of Trump’s tariffs today: Rand Paul (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Democrats were able to force a vote on the issue by invoking a Senate rule that allows Congress to vote to block a president’s emergency powers. On November 5, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments regarding President Donald Trump’s power to impose sweeping tariffs on virtually all goods imported into the United States. Senator Reed filed an amicus brief in that case urging the high court to strike down Trump’s ‘emergency’ tariffs. | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T19:32:54Z |