The House of Representatives voted to revoke President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration over the flow of drugs from Canada, his legal method of imposing tariffs on Canadian imports.
The Wednesday vote, by a 219-211 margin, is the result of a rare revolt against Trump’s tariff policies.
Six Republicans voted to deprive Trump of his emergency tariff powers: Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Don Bacon of Nebraska, Kevin Kiley of California, Dan Newhouse of Washington, Jeff Hurd of Colorado, and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.
On the Democrat side, Rep. Jared Golden, who represents a Maine swing district, was the only member to vote against the measure.
The resolution will require approval from the Senate and president to be enacted. Congress, absent a veto-proof majority, cannot unilaterally vote to rescind a national emergency declaration, so Trump can veto successful attempts to revoke his emergency power.
Trump took to social media just moments before the vote was gaveled in to declare his displeasure with Republicans who oppose his tariffs.
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“Any Republican, in the House or the Senate, that votes against TARIFFS will seriously suffer the consequences come Election time, and that includes Primaries!” Trump wrote. “TARIFFS have given us Economic and National Security, and no Republican should be responsible for destroying this privilege.”
Massie is already facing a Trump-backed primary challenger, and neither Newhouse nor Bacon are seeking reelection in 2026. After pro-Democrat redistricting in California that changed the boundaries of his district, Kiley is deciding on which district to run in for 2026.
Trump has declared national emergencies under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act as a legal justification for imposing tariffs. The Supreme Court is currently ruling on the legality of this use of a 1977 law.
In February of 2025, Trump, citing the flow of drugs into the United States from Canada, imposed tariffs on the United States’ northern neighbor.
Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, authored the resolution to revoke Trump’s declaration of an emergency.
The resolution, which follows a process laid out by the National Emergencies Act, was “privileged,” so Republican leadership could not block it from coming to the floor.
House Republican leadership had hoped to block such anti-tariff resolutions until July, by attempting to pass a “rule” on Tuesday with language invalidating the resolutions.
However, Massie, Bacon, and Kiley joined with all Democrats this week to kill the rule by a 217-214 margin, enabling Meeks’ resolution to come to a vote on the floor on Wednesday.
A previous prohibition on anti-tariff resolutions expired at the end of January.
“What we are witnessing is one of the most astounding displays of cowardice in the modern history of Congress,” Meeks said on the House floor Tuesday of the pro-tariff language. “I’ve never seen a group of members so deeply afraid of just doing their job.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., explained the rationale of the attempt to shield Trump’s tariff authority to The Daily Signal on Tuesday.
“The rationale for this, for just extending this for a little bit longer to July, is to allow the Supreme Court to rule on the pending case,” he told The Daily Signal.
Johnson continued, “I think the sentiment is that we allow a little bit more runway for this to be worked out between the executive branch and the judicial branch.”
The House of Representatives voted to revoke Trump’s national emergency declaration over the flow of drugs from Canada, his legal method of imposing tariffs on Canadian imports.
Before the final vote Bacon told reporters of his position, “Why doesn’t Congress stand up on its own two feet and say that we’re an independent branch and this is an Article One responsibility?”
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