House votes to override Trump's Canada tariffs

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNBC

Published Wed, Feb 11 2026 9:23 AM EST Updated 8 Min Ago


The House on Wednesday passed a resolution disapproving of President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada, a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and a rare Republican rebuke of the president’s signature economic policy. The resolution cleared the House 219-211, with several Republicans crossing the aisle to support it. One Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, voted against the measure.

The tariff resolution, introduced by Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., was considered a day after a procedural vote on a rule that would have barred House challenges to Trump’s tariffs failed with the support of three Republican members.

“The Speaker continues to abdicate his responsibilities, ceding Congress’s Article I authority to Donald Trump,” Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement posted to X on Tuesday. “Republicans now face a clear choice: go on the record and join Democrats in ending these cost-raising tariffs, or keep forcing American families to pay for them.”

The vote on Trump’s tariffs forced House Republicans to choose between loyalty to the president and striking down economic policy that many in the GOP conference do not like.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/gop-trump-tariffs-canada.html

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REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143614601

[mdbl]

1. What is with the idiot from Maine? Aren't they a border state?

I guess he wants his state to continue to lose Canadian visitors.

[mahina]

2. Maybe he's responding to some muscle

He’s the one that already said he wasn’t coming back right?

Though my Mom would say that that’s just ʻpure speculationʻ

[the nelm]

9. You're right. He is an idiot. He represents Maine's 2nd district which represents the...

northern 2/3rds of the state. That district is purple at best. I always found him as a trying to play both sides type. Collins is from that district as well, though as Senator she supposedly represents the whole state. I grew up in that part of that state but haven't lived there for most of my life.

[delisen]

3. Especially since he is not running for re-election.....nt

[Polybius]

7. Tariffs don't have to be a partisan thing

Former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt was a big tariff supporter.

[Buddyzbuddy]

4. I looking forward to the Smurf being assigned to a closet in the next term.

I know it won't happen, we're too gentile.
The basement with his friggin red stapler would do just fine. Or a boiler room with no windows.

[70sEraVet]

5. I have one suggestion concerning that article:

It should read, "forced House Republicans to choose between loyalty to the president AND LOYALTY TO THE US CONSTITUTION!"

[BumRushDaShow]

8. The article is correct because

the GOP has done NOTHING to uphold the Constitution and has in essence, ditched Article I (which is THEIR BRANCH) to promote the "Unitary Executive" and elevate Article II. And their Constitutional disdain includes attacking the Article III Judicial Branch (threatening impeachments of judges and other retaliatory investigations) and sticking it to the states by ignoring the 10th Amendment.

[progressoid]

6. Looks like some are trying to un-tarnish their reputation before the next election.

Good luck with that.

[ChicagoTeamster]

10. Awesome. Is it veto proof? What is it's likelihood of being enforced against an administration that defies judges?

[reACTIONary]

11. No, it is not veto proof, and....

.... it has to go to the senate. The senate has passed similar resolutions, but when it gets to tsf, it will be vetoed.