Senate Joint Resolution 49, aimed at blocking President Trump’s tariffs, failed to pass in the US Senate on Wednesday after a deadlocked 49-49 vote.
The resolution, led by Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and supported by a mostly Democrat group that also included Republicans Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski, sought to terminate the national emergency declaration Trump used to impose 10% reciprocal tariffs on most US trading partners.
The resolution had little chance of advancing in the House due to a new rule protecting Trump’s tariffs.
The White House had warned the senators that Trump would veto the measure, arguing it would undermine national and economic security. The failed vote coincided with new economic data showing a 0.3% decline in US GDP, raising concerns about the tariffs’ economic impact.
“Today, I voted in support of SJR 49, which would terminate the President’s national emergency declaration regarding our trade deficits with countries around the world. Bilateral trade deficits do not constitute a national emergency, nor do they qualify as an ‘unusual and extraordinary’ circumstance needed to unlock authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. We have a lot more work to do to reclaim Congress’s constitutional power over tariffs, but this resolution is a step in the right direction,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
The “step in the right direction” failed, however, to must enough votes to make progress. Congress has the constitutional authority over tariffs as found in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, whereby Congress has the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” and to regulate commerce with foreign nations. This includes the authority to impose tariffs, which are, in fact, taxes on imported goods.
But Congress has delegated some of this authority to the president through various laws, such as the Trade Act of 1974 and the Tariff Act of 1930. These laws allow a president to adjust tariffs under specific circumstances, such as national security (e.g., Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962) or trade negotiations.
While the president can exercise this delegated authority, Congress retains the ultimate constitutional power to legislate tariffs and can override or modify presidential actions.
Doesn’t matter what trump does. Lying Lisa will always be against it. She seems to have a vendetta against him. Trump could solve world hunger. But she would be against. She is pathetic.
Shes mad because she is having whatever her grift was. Lets have an in depth audit of the senators finances. Are her NGO’s not collecting the USAID funds she was promised?
She must have alot invested in Soros and Act Blue. Or they in her. Either way she has always been a liberal democrat and we need to vote her out.
yes
Nepotism Lisa is a classic george bush NeoCon.
Free Trade, Open Borders, Endless Wars.
Looks like Lisa is perfectly ok with other countries dumping cheap merchandise in our markets while it puts more and more Americans out of work. Uncle Joe is gone, who’s going to give her the millions to pay Alaskans to not work??
Trump cures cancer and world hunger! Lisa says “ we can’t have him messing up the system and making people live better lives “.
What a bafoon! Send her to Seattle!
Lisa has never served the state of Alaska. She is only in it for herself, and only seems to care when it comes to election season. Do you really feel she wants to advance the economy of Alaska through ANWR and or the LNG project? Nothing in it for her, so no.
Oh for crying out loud can we simply fire this worthless POS
What is next on the TDS ladder of escalation, Princess Lisa — inviting Trump to a cage fight?
I can imagine your derangement taking you that far, but I wouldn’t do it — Trump would snap your bony, fleshless frame like twigs.
On second thought, though ….
She wants to have his baby and he said no.
Only thing that makes sense.
He’ll hath no fury… Etc.
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Sign, sealed & delivered. Thank you Princess for your efforts. All shall be rewarded.
Signed:
Commrade Xi, CCP
Lisa……The gift that keeps giving
Once she sold her soul to the devil, YOURS was no longer of any consequence, and it doesn’t matter who YOU are.
They say you can’t recall a Senator… Look again.
Since Frank Murkowski appointed her to the US Senate the US debt has grown over $30Trillion. She doesn’t know anything about economics. She just knows spending and grifting on that spending.
Why wouldn’t we consider Lisa Murkowski to be an economic genius too? She did pass the Bar Exam after four tries. And she is her daddy’s trust baby. And as a severely afflicted Democrat with TDS, Murkowski can lead her flock right over the cliff. That would be nice!
She was elected (by a phoney election) to represent Alaska’s viewpoint, not the Democrats or hers, she needs to be removed!
Good ol’ Lisa, Soo dependable…..to always be on the wrong side of everything
I’m predicting there will be a lot more Alaskans taking trips by RV this year to visit their folks in the Lower 48 so that their ‘children’ can have three dolls at Christmas.
What are you talking about?
Shh. Don’t let on to the others, and you can rent an RV, too.
I’m sickened that the republican party lets her call herself a republican. Does nothing to make it known that she’s not. I am NOT being represented by her.
Princess needs a mental health check.
I have no problem with Paul’s objection since he does it on principled grounds. He is an isolationist with free trade tendencies. I can disagree but respect the disagreement.
Princess is just broken.
Sen. Murkowski is correct. She’s read the US Constitution. Article 1, Section 8 gives Congress authority over tariffs. Congress spelled out, through legislation, how the president can raise tariffs. Trump’s problem is he made up the national emergency he’s used as justification for his higher taxes/tariffs. Soon, the courts will rule and the tariffs/taxes will be tossed.
Murkowski is also correct about the damage these tariffs/taxes does to the economy. The federal government has no business trying to tell private businesses how, or where, they should invest their capital.
Conservatives support free trade and lower taxes. But Trump was a Democrat for most of his life, and still acts like one.
nope
Rand Paul is usually very solid, but siding with Lisa and Susan on this tariff bill is sooooo stupid…!…Come on Dr. Paul, look at who you’re sleeping with. Why would a human being sleep with maggots? You may have an ointment for that, but geez man, yuk!
She’s been on the wrong side of every issue…history will judge her harshly.
She is earning the money she has already been paid and it is time to remove her from office…
Please inform Lisa Murkowski that my office is open to her for a complimentary, full mental assessment. I’d like to have a chat with her.
We are getting too many patients who have developed TDS as a direct result of Lisa Murkowski’s targeted statements against Donald Trump. It appears she has encouraged this rapid TDS outbreak. Our business is going great with lots of new customers. But Lisa Murkowski’s name is always associated with rampant TDS in the Anchorage area.
Doc,
Everyone already knows that Murkowski is mentally ill. Her mom and dad know it too.
Therapy for her won’t do any good for we Alaskans. Removal from office is therapy for us.
Dr. Dan……wouldn’t a brain scan, and an MRI, be easier to read? Nothing would appear on the image. Trying to figure out her psychopathy would require monumental analysis, as Lisa has so much mental illness going on.
Of course she voted with the (D)democrats. She lies when she says this is about “good public policy.” She always lies every single time when she speaks or writes these words. This is about her hatred for Trump. Better known as TDS. She needs to be censured by the Alaska Republicans. (Hear that, Carmela?). This will be a battle. I work down the hall from one of the AK Republicans who also has a close connection to Lisa and is part of the Never Trumpers. Censure needs to happen. And then Lisa needs to be primaried – or just start telling the truth and switch parties.
Keep,the tariffs on. We will prevail. Trump is a great negotiator.
Where are the “leaders” of Alaska’s GOP?? Throw this Democratic out of the GOP and find a primary canadate to run against TDS Murky.
Lisa is one of the few Senators who will vote her conscience in the face of adversity. Good for her for standing against unjust and illegal actions of the Trump administrations. GO LISA WE LOVE YOU.
O so now you are supporting a republican, whidbey. You’re bi-political if it suits you.
She’s anti-Trump, just like Liz Cheney, and that’s good enough for me. Gotta fight the hottest fire first.
It’s cute that you think she has a conscience. She a lawyer and she’s a politician, having a conscience isn’t really a thing in either of those professions.
And there is Whidbey, once again standing up for everything corrupt, decadent, degenerate, status-quo and establishment.
You are literally a caricature of yourself, do you know that?
Dawg: Where exactly are these alleged “Tax cuts for the Rich”?
You keep posting that phrase: “Tax cuts for the rich”. Yet you have not once posted any such proposed tax cuts. We need to see the alleged bills.
Ewwwww! Never EVER use the word ” strip”anywhere near her name!!!!! Yuck!!!!!!
Praise the Lord that there are enough actual conservatives the Senate to neutralize liberal Murkowski, who claims to be a conservative. Alaska we can do so much better than this woman!