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5 GOP senators help pass bill to strike Trump's Brazil tariffs

The Senate voted 52 to 48 to pass the resolution sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to terminate President Trump’s 50-percent tariffs on Brazilian imports, such as coffee, oil and orange juice.

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Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Thom Tillis (N.C.), Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted with Paul and 47 members of the Democratic caucus to pass the resolution.

Paul, speaking on the Senate floor, called the tariff a tax on U.S. consumers.

The Kentucky Republican argued that the Constitution requires that “taxes must originate in the House” of Representatives.

“Yet, these taxes are originating with the White House,” he said.

McConnell, in a statement, said th

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