For the third time in as many days, the U.S. Senate delivered a bipartisan rebuke to President Donald Trump’s trade agenda, voting 51–47 to terminate the national emergency that authorized sweeping global tariffs ranging from 10% to 50%. The move marks a rare act of defiance by members of the president’s own party amid mounting concerns over his economic and governance strategies.

Four Republican senators—Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky—again crossed party lines to back the resolution, mirroring their opposition to Trump’s earlier tariffs on Canada and Brazil. The resolution challenges the administration’s claim that the national trade deficit constitutes an emergency, a justification that Paul derided as “a complete

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