Here Are the Five Republican Senators Who Voted With Dems to End Trump's Tariffs on Brazil

By Susie Moore | 8:50 PM on October 28, 2025

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Party unity isn't Republicans' strongest trait — though they've pretty well stuck together through the Schumer Shutdown so far.

Tuesday evening delivered a different story as five Senate Republicans opted to side with the Democrats and voted to block President Donald Trump's tariffs on Brazil.

Senate Republicans offered a rare rebuke against President Donald Trump and his trade strategy on Tuesday, despite still remaining largely in lockstep amid the ongoing government shutdown.
A handful of Senate Republicans joined Senate Democrats to end Trump’s use of emergency powers to implement steep, 50% tariffs on Brazil. While the resolution, led by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., advanced from the upper chamber, it can’t be taken up in the House until early next year.
That’s because House Republicans recently passed a rule that would not allow the chamber to consider legislation dealing with Trump’s tariffs until January of next year.

So, who were the Republicans who broke ranks?

🚨NEW — Four Republicans in the senate just voted with Democrats to end Trump’s tariffs on imports from Brazil.

Mitch McConnell

Thom Tillis

Rand Paul

Lisa Murkowski

Susan Collins pic.twitter.com/OkbwLhSQcK
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 28, 2025

I bet if I'd asked you to guess who the five were, you'd have come up with most — if not all — of them:

Susan Collins (ME)
Mitch McConnell (KY)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Rand Paul (KY)
Thom Tillis (NC)

This followed a closed-door lunch between Vice President JD Vance and Republican senators during which Vance cautioned the senators not to thwart Trump's tariff use.

Vance argued after the lunch that tariffs give Trump leverage to craft new trade deals that benefit the country and urged Republicans not to break ranks against the president.
"To vote against that is to strip that incredible leverage from the president of the United States. I think it's a huge mistake and I know most of the people in there agree with me," he said.

As of this writing, President Trump has not commented on the vote (though he's rather busy at the moment on the other side of the world).

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As noted above, the House won't be able to take up the measure until at least January.

This is a developing story.

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