CNN is reporting tonight that Senator Rand Paul says he has enough votes in the Senate to pass a resolution blocking President Trump’s tariffs.
However, Manu Raju reports that Speaker Johnson is going to block the resolution from ever coming to the floor in the House, and Paul is pissed about it:
GOP Sen. Rand Paul says he expects to have enough votes in Senate to pass resolution to effectively block Trump’s tarrifs.
But Paul, who expects the vote Wednesday, attacked Speaker Johnson’s move to block such resolutions as “dishonesty.”— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 28, 2025
“I would call it chicanery. I would call it dishonesty,” Paul said of Johnson’s move to tuck a provison blocking tariff resolutions into a rule. “I mean, it's just a terrible idea that he's actually overturning the law with a rule.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 28, 2025
The White House has said today that President Trump would veto such a resolution, so all of this is really moot. But it just shows the opposition to the tariffs among at least a handful of Republicans in the Senate.