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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |David Westin
Senator Dave McCormick, a Republican from Pennsylvania, departs following the Senate Republican policy luncheon at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. The House is scheduled to vote on a six-month spending bill that would make sure the whole government doesn't shut down, interrupting the fast start of President Donald Trump's second watch.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |David Westin
Republican Senator Dave McCormick predicted a higher tax rate on millionaires won’t fly with the GOP-controlled Congress, throwing cold water on a proposal gaining support in the White House and among some of his fellow lawmakers. “I don’t think that’s likely to happen,” the former Bridgewater Associates chief executive said in a Bloomberg Television interview.
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a resolution in the Senate to repeal the tariffs, which is expected to hold a vote in the coming weeks. (Bloomberg) -- House Republicans plan to move Wednesday to prevent Democrats from forcing them to take a public vote on President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, a person familiar said.
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |Catherine Lucey
Republican senators expressed anxiety over the potential economic toll of Donald Trump’s global tariffs and pressed his trade representative for more clarity on the president’s objectives in the trade conflict. “Whose throat do I get to choke if this turns out to be wrong?” Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina asked Tuesday as US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer testified before the Senate Finance Committee.
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden said Tuesday he will force a vote on repealing the sweeping global tariffs Donald Trump announced last week, testing political support for the president’s trade war. The Democrat’s gambit will require his Republican colleagues to take a public stand on a tariff offensive that has roiled financial markets for days and raised fears of a recession.
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2 weeks ago | 
ttnews.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz
Government Business Technology Equipment Logistics April 7, 2025 5:47 PM, EDT GOP Senator Says Bill to Curb Trump Tariffs Faces Veto Threat “The president’s indicated he would veto it," Thune said.
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz
Senate Republican leader John Thune predicted a bipartisan bill that would give lawmakers greater oversight of President Donald Trump’s tariffs would languish in Congress. The legislation, co-sponsored by GOP Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, has picked up at least six other Republican backers amid growing GOP unease about the trade war’s economic toll. Markets have plummeted in the days following Trump’s tariff announcement.
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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz
Republican senators will soon be forced to do something they’ve avoided: take a public stand on the trade war President Donald Trump is instigating. The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday, potentially just as Trump stands in the White House Rose Garden to announce sweeping plans to impose reciprocal tariffs, on a Democratic resolution taking aim at his tariffs on Canada.
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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz
This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, congressional correspondent Alicia Diaz looks at the state of play at the Capitol on the day before the president’s big tariff announcement. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here. It’s the night before “Liberation Day,” and Republicans on Capitol Hill are stirring.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |Erik Wasson
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