The US Senate rejects the offer to block Trump's tariffs | Donald Trump News

Three Republican senators vote with the Democrats to vote for the resolution in order to oppose the US president's trade policy.

The Senate of the United States has rejected the efforts to block the tariffs of US President Donald Trump in the midst of cross -party concerns about the effects of its trade volleys on the economy.

The upper house of the US congress voted 49: 49 on Wednesday to string back the resolution, hours after the US economy shrank for the first time in three years.

Three Republican Senators – Rand Paul von Kentucky, Susan Collins by Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska – voted with all the current Democrats and independent for the measure in a rare complaint from Trump from his own party.

“The Senate of the United States can not be a stuffy viewer in the tariff madness,” said Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, who represents Oregon, before the vote.

“The congress has the authority to determine tariffs and regulate global trade.”

The resolution was generally regarded as a symbolic gesture, since it was unlikely that it had gained traction in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and that Trump's Veto power would ultimately be suspended.

“It is still a debate that is worth it, because if in a month we have massive tariffs, and we have a massive sale on the stock exchange, and we didn't have a first growth district, and if it is worse in the second quarter, people would start asking.

Trump has put the fears that his tariffs achieved, including a Dut deer of 145 percent in China, could lead the USA into a recession.

The US Ministry of Trade reported on Wednesday that the economy took up 0.3 percent in the first three months of the year, a time when Trump imposed its steepest tariffs.

A recession is typically defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth.