Democrats take aim at Trump’s latest tariffs

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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) arrives for a Senate Democratic Caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol March 13, 2025. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)
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After finding success in a Tuesday disapproval vote, a new resolution could come to the floor later this month.

Jordain Carney

04/03/2025, 2:05pm ET

After successfully engineering a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump, Senate Democrats want to do it again: They’re eyeing a new measure that could splinter Republicans and potentially undo the sweeping tariffs special lead Trump rolled out Wednesday.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who led the push to undo Trump’s Canada tariffs that won approval Wednesday, said it was “likely” that Democrats would move forward with legislation taking aim at the new, more sweeping levies. The vote, he said, wouldn’t occur until after the Senate returns from a two-week recess slated to start on April 11.


One of the laws Trump used to levy the latest tariffs, the National Emergencies Act, allows Congress to quickly debate and vote on a disapproval resolution that would effectively cancel the tariffs. But actually doing so faces major obstacles: Not only would the Senate have to act, but the GOP-controlled House would have to approve the same measure. Trump could then still veto it, forcing a two-thirds-majority override vote.