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And the nays are 211. The joint resolution is passed without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.
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The cheers erupted on the House floor as MAGA Mike Johnson and Donald Trump faced another humiliating defeat. By a vote of 219 to 2 11, the House of Representatives voted to ban or block Donald Trump's tariffs against Canada to revoke those tariffs. Now, this follows, of course, what took place yesterday when Magamike Johnson tried to bring what's called a rule to the floor, which would have precluded the House of Representatives from voting to block Donald Trump's tariffs against Canada, Mexico or the rest of the world for an entire year. So MAGA Mike tried to block the debate to prevent Congress from even taking this vote to block Donald Trump's tariffs against the world. MAGA Mike was outvoted yesterday by a significant amount as well. 217 against the rule and only 214 in favor of the rule. And and because voting to block Donald Trump's tariffs against the world is something called a privileged resolution, Democrats were able to bring it to the House floor for a vote yesterday. And the Democrats, along with six Republicans, voted against Donald Trump's Canada tariffs. And this was a massive loss for Donald Trump and MAGA Mike Johnson. Here are the six Republicans who who voted against Trump and joined with the Democrats Thomas Massie, Don Bacon, Brian Fitzpatrick, Jeff Heard, Kevin Kylie, and Dan Newhouse. Now, this follows Donald Trump threatening any Republican in the House who would dare vote against him and MAGA Mike Johnson would suffer severe consequences. Well, the Republicans defied him and MAGA Mike, the Republicans rebuked him. And those six Republicans at least joined with Democrats in the House of Representative. Folks, the dam has broken and Donald Trump is losing each and every day. Here's what Trump posted. Any Republican in the House or Senate that votes against the tariffs will seriously suffer the consequences come election time, and that includes primaries. Our trade deficit has been reduced by 78%. The Dow Jones has just hit 50,000 and the S&P 7,000, all numbers that were considered impossible. Just one year ago. Really, our deficit has decreased 78%. You're just making up numbers. Donald Trump goes on to say, in addition, tariffs have given us great national security because the mere mention of the word has countries agreeing to our strongest wishes. Tariffs have given us economic and national national security and no Republican should be responsible for destroying this privilege. President Donald J. Trump the privilege is in Article 1 of the Constitution. The power belongs to Congress. Congress has the power over taxes and tariffs are a form of tax. So if indeed that privilege as you call it, or what seems to be a curse, is wanted because 95% of it's passed on to consumers, which is why inflation is surging and actually why we had a jobs recession last year. Congress can pass a law, but Congress doesn't want this. They just rebuked you, Donald. Donald Trump also posted the following message as well right as these tariffs against the world by Trump were rebuked by Congress. Trump Posts Canada has taken advantage of the United States on trade for many years. They are among the worst in the world to deal with, especially as it relates to our northern border. Tariffs make a win for us easy, easy. Republicans must keep it that way. President Donald J. Trump now we know that Donald Trump always attacks Canada, defames Canada, calls it the 51st state attacks its sovereignty. But what makes this specifically disgusting is that for anybody following world events in British Columbia, Canada just suffered a major school shooting at a school in British Columbia where nine innocent people lost their lives. Shooter took his own life as well. 25 people seriously injured mostly all the countries across the world called Canada to show remorse standing with Canada. You know when I heard from Prime Minister Carney earlier in the day, he mentioned all the countries that called them. He didn't mention the United States. Instead Donald Trump rather than showing sympathy and remorse for what's going on in Canada right now, Donald Trump post this attack. At the same time Congress voted to revoke, remove, rebuke, you pick the R word, you pick whatever you want to call it, but stop the tariffs. Congressmember Don Bacon, Republican writes the following Congress has Article 1 constitutional responsibility on tariffs. We cannot and should not outsource our responsibilities. As an old fashioned conservative, I know tariffs are a tax on the American consumers. I know some disagree but this debate and vote should occur in the House. We also heard from Gary Shapiro who was reposted by Don Bacon. These tariffs aren't strategic. They make products less affordable, squeeze manufacturers and slow startups. Thanks to House Dems and Kevin Kiley, Don Bacon and Massey for rejecting yesterday's procedural motion and preserving Congressional authority on trade. And as Brendan Duke explains and as reposted by Don Bacon Wow. The Congressional Budget Office just came out with its latest estimates and it estimates that U.S. consumers bear 95% of the Trump tariffs. Basically foreign firms bear 5% of them, U.S. companies bear 30% of them, but other U.S. companies get to raise prices on consumers from less competition so that nets to zero and consumers pay the rest. And Don Bacon repost Scott Lindsay Combs saying Shocked, shocked, I tell you that the CBO would find basically the same thing regarding tariff incidents that the St. Louis Fed, the Keel Institute, Tax Foundation, Harvard Business School and others have found. Shocked, shocked I tell you. State regime media, which calls itself Fox, is saying tariff turmoil. The House passed legislation aimed at reversing Trump's tariffs on Canada, with several Republicans joining Democrats for a rare rebuke of Donald Trump. By the way, just take a look right here at some of these statistics. We did this analysis using the Yale Budget Lab and CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation data. The Trump Republican cost of living in Maga Mike's district increased about $2,000 average for 298,000 working and middle class families in Louisiana's 4th congressional congressional district. The same analysis for Steve Scalise's district raised costs about $2,000 as well. Same thing for Maga Republican Tom Emmer's district.