Overview
- Five Republicans — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul — joined Democrats to pass a privileged resolution requiring only a simple majority.
- The resolution would terminate the national emergency underpinning the tariffs, which the administration used to impose a 50% levy on most Brazilian imports under the IEEPA.
- House GOP procedures block consideration of such challenges, and the White House is expected to veto any bill that reached the president, leaving the Senate vote largely symbolic.
- Vice President JD Vance urged Republicans to oppose the measure, arguing tariffs provide leverage for trade negotiations, underscoring GOP divisions over the policy.
- The Supreme Court is set to weigh the administration’s emergency tariff authority after lower courts struck down most IEEPA-based duties, as more than 200 Democrats and Murkowski filed a brief arguing the law does not permit unilateral tariffs.