A handful of Republicans crossed party lines to side with Democrats in the first of several votes this week aimed at challenging the president’s trade war.

The Senate on Tuesday voted to terminate the 50 percent tariffs that President Trump has imposed on Brazil, with a handful of Republicans crossing party lines to help push through a measure rejecting the emergency declaration used to justify them.
While the resolution faces long odds in the House, where Republicans have taken extraordinary steps to make it more difficult to bring up such measures, the vote signaled bipartisan frustration with the president’s tariffs on most goods from Brazil, a country with which the United States has a multibillion-dollar trade surplus.

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Just as in the case of Argentina, Trump puts the welfare of his admirers ahead of that of Americans. In this case it's all about Bolsonaro who was recently convicted by a Brazilian court. His vanity and neediness know no bounds.

He imposed these tariffs despite the fact that the US actually runs a trade surplus with Brazil.

Some Republicans have found a backbone.