House Votes to Cancel Trump’s Canada Tariffs

“The House voted on Wednesday to rescind tariffs that President Trump imposed on Canada last year, delivering a largely symbolic but politically consequential rebuke that Republicans had fought for a year to prevent,” the New York Times reports.

“In a 219-to-211 vote, six Republicans joined nearly all Democrats in backing the resolution sponsored by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee. While the Senate has moved to cancel the president’s tariffs in recent months, the vote was the House’s first opportunity to formally register a position on Mr. Trump’s trade policy since he returned to the White House and began deploying tariffs as an economic strategy.”