The US Senate on Thursday voted to nullify the “reciprocal" tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on more than 100 countries.

According to The Guardian, four Republicans – senators Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska – joined the Democrats to vote 51-47 on a resolution to end the base-level tariffs that the President put into place via executive order.

This was the third time the Republicans joined the Democrats to vote against the tariff resolution this week, previously against tariffs targeting Brazil and Canada.

Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, said: “I did learn in the first Trump term that the president is responsive to things like this. When he sees Republicans starting to vote against his policies, even i

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