The Senate passed a resolution Tuesday to effectively revoke President Donald Trump’s asinine 50% tariff on Brazilian imports, which is increasing the cost of goods like coffee, sugar, and beef.
Five Republicans joined Democrats to vote for the legislation—the first in a series of three tariff-canceling resolutions—to end the "emergencies" Trump used as the impetus to levy the tariffs in the first place.
What was the “emergency” warranting a 50% tax on Brazilian goods, you ask? Well, the Brazilian government indicted Trump’s corrupt buddy and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
“President Trump’s tariffs on Brazilian goods, which he imposed in an attempt to stop Brazil’s prosecution of one of his friends, are outrageous,” Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who co-sponsored th

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