Five Senate Republicans join Democrats to rebuke Trump’s Brazil tariffs

A view of containers at the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 22. Fabio Teixeira/Anadolu/Getty Images

The Senate passed a resolution Tuesday aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, with five Republicans joining Democrats in a rare bipartisan rebuke of the president over trade policy.

Sens. Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell sided with Democrats in the 52 to 48 vote.

McConnell has long been critical of Trump’s trade policy, and said in a statement ahead of the vote, “Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule.”

The resolution, however, isn’t expected to be taken up by the House. Earlier this y