A radical of Republican senators voted on with Democrats connected Wednesday for a solution to undo President Trump's 25 percent tariffs connected Canadian imports, dealing an embarrassing stroke to Trump.

The solution expresses the consciousness of the Senate and doesn’t person the unit of law, but its 51-48 transition is unwelcome quality for the president connected the precise time helium announced a big of caller tariffs.

Four Republicans — Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitch McConnell (Ky.) — voted for the measure.

They voted to explicit their disapproval of Trump’s tariffs connected Canada a fewer hours aft the president announced helium would enforce a 10 percent tariff connected each imports and levy adjacent higher rates connected imports from the European Union, China, Vietnam and Japan.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) had urged Republican colleagues to ballot against the resolution, advising them it was a governmental gambit by Democrats to embarrass Trump.

Thune argued connected the Senate level Wednesday day that the tariff against Canada is indispensable leverage to propulsion Canadian authorities to ace down connected cause smuggling crossed the bluish border.

“I impulse my colleagues to reason this solution and guarantee that President Trump has the tools that helium needs to combat the travel of fentanyl from each directions,” helium said.

He argued the fentanyl situation warrants “an assertive response.”

Democrats framed the solution arsenic a plea for Trump to halt escalating his commercialized warfare with Canada, 1 of the nation’s biggest trading partners.

They said Trump’s Canadian tariffs would interaction an estimated 6.5 cardinal jobs crossed the country.

Trump, for his part, took a changeable astatine Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), for sponsoring the resolution.

“Sen. Tim Kaine, who ran against maine with Crooked Hillary successful 2016, is trying to halt our captious Tariffs connected deadly Fentanyl coming successful from Canada. We are making advancement to extremity this unspeakable Fentanyl Crisis, but Republicans successful the Senate MUST ballot to support the National Emergency successful place, truthful we tin decorativeness the job, and extremity the scourge,” Trump posted connected Truth Social.

He besides targeted the 4 Republicans successful the hours earlier the vote.

“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, besides of Kentucky, volition hopefully get connected the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and combat the Democrats chaotic and flagrant propulsion to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of ample amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the worth of this horrible and deadly cause successful bid to marque it much costly to administer and buy,” Trump posted.

Trump has imposed 25 percent tariffs connected Canada and Mexico, arsenic good arsenic 25 percent tariffs connected alloy and aluminum imports.

Collins has been an outspoken professional of Trump’s 25-percent tariff connected Canadian goods, warning last month it would person a “devastating” interaction connected immoderate businesses in her state.

Speaking connected the Senate level Wednesday, Collins pointed retired that “the Maine system is integrated with Canada, our astir important trading partner.”

From location heating oil, gasoline, pitchy fuel, and different refined petroleum products, to Maine’s insubstantial mills, wood products businesses, cultivation producers, and lobstermen, the tariffs connected Canada would beryllium detrimental to galore Maine families and our section economies,” she said.

“The Canadian tariffs volition decidedly person a detrimental interaction connected the system of Maine and on borderline communities successful particular,” she told The Hill past month. “We person for illustration a large insubstantial mill successful Northern Maine close connected the borderline that gets its pulp from Canada.

“That mill alone, which is by acold the biggest leader successful the region, employs 510 radical directly. I’ve talked to the proprietor of that mill, the imposition of a 25-percent tariff could beryllium devastating,” she warned.

Paul, a libertarian-leaning conservative, has been the loudest professional successful the Senate GOP league of Trump’s commercialized warfare with Canada and Mexico. He is simply a co-sponsor of the resolution.

“I person each large manufacture successful Kentucky lobbying maine against them: the cargo shippers, the farmers, the bourbon manufacturers, the location builders, the location sellers — you sanction it — obstruction manufacturers,” Paul told The Hill past month.

He besides said the tariffs were an end-run astir Congress.

“Trade is simply a bully thing. Trade is proportional to prosperity and truthful tariffs are atrocious economically,” he told reporters Tuesday. “It’s a unspeakable thought to tally a state by exigency wherever representatives to ballot connected raising oregon lowering taxes.”

Paul said tariffs “are atrocious for the country, atrocious for prosperity, atrocious for the economy.”

“Our Constitution was precise circumstantial that taxes — tariffs are a taxation — taxes originate successful the House, travel to the Senate and past spell the president,” helium said. “They don’t conscionable spell to the president and nary 1 else. What benignant of strategy would it beryllium if each of our taxes and laws were passed by 1 person?”

McConnell, speaking astatine a caller property league successful Kentucky, pointed retired that Canadian authorities person already pulled Kentucky-distilled bourbon from its store shelves.

“I’m not a instrumentality of tariffs,” helium said. “We person 70,000 farmers successful Kentucky, fundamentally marque their wealth disconnected of trade, export. So I deliberation a semipermanent commercialized warfare would beryllium a mistake.”

Senate Republican leaders who opposed the solution said it won’t travel up for a ballot successful the Republican-controlled House. They predicted it would ne'er marque it to Trump’s desk.

“It’ll spell obscurity successful the House and the president won’t motion it, truthful it’s not going to spell anywhere,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an advisor to the Senate GOP enactment team.

The S&P 500 fell successful after-hours trading Wednesday aft Trump announced his 10 percent crossed the committee tariffs and his reciprocal tariffs targeting Europe, China, Vietnam and Japan.