Senate Snubs Trump on Trade in Third Anti-Tariff Vote This Week

Oct. 30, 2025, 5:16 PM UTC

The Republican-led Senate passed legislation opposing President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, its third vote this week rebuking the White House’s trade policies.

The 51-47 vote, which included four Republicans, underscores growing economic anxiety over Trump’s often-changing tariff regime. Senators earlier this week narrowly passed bills to end emergency authorities underpinning the tariffs on Canada and Brazil.

The resolutions are largely symbolic because the House still must pass them, and Republican leaders there have refused to take them up. But the votes are the clearest sign yet of growing Republican unrest over Trump’s use of rarely used ...

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