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riversedge

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Thu May 1, 2025, 07:22 AM May 1

Dem Sen. Whitehouse missed the Tariff vote b/c he was on his way back from S Korea....... [View all]

I had been wondering why. I saw the South Korea reference on another tweet.


Manu Raju
@mkraju
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49-49, Bipartisan push to halt Trump tariffs fails in Senate after two supporters — Mitch McConnell and Sheldon Whitehouse — were absent. It would have passed if they were there.

Even if it passed, House GOP leaders planned to ignore it

McConnell was sick, Whitehouse traveling




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