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Senate rejects the cross -party measure to reverse Trump's tariffs

On Wednesday, the Senate rejected the efforts to reverse the comprehensive tariffs of President Trump for most US trading partners, even as a small group of republicans with the Democrats provided a complaint from a trading policy that fears many legislators.

The vote rose at 49 to 49 years, which means that three Republicans had failed in favor of a measure in which the national emergency declaration, which Mr. Trump had used this month, was to end 10 percent mutual tariffs.

Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky and Cosponsor of the Resolution, crossed the party lines to support them, as well as the senators Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska. However, the defects were not enough to compensate for the absences of two supporters: Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, and Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, who supported a similar measure this month.

“It is still a debate that is worth led,” said Paul about the failed resolution. He noticed that many of his republican colleagues express dismay about Mr. Trump's trade war, but carefully calibrated their public answers to push up the president.

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