Republican backlash in Congress over President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs burst into view on Feb. 11 despite last-minute efforts by White House officials to stave off a public party schism.
The GOP-led House of Representatives voted to overturn his tariffs on Canada after six Republicans joined with House Democrats to rescind the emergency declaration the president has used as a basis for imposing taxes on imports from one of the United States' closest allies. Republicans still largely backed Trump, with a vote totaling 219-211.
The vote was the culmination of simmering frustration with the White House among some GOP lawmakers, whose patience for a long-awaited Supreme Court ruling over Trump's tariff power had run thin. Over the past year, a procedural trick allowed House Speaker Mike Johnson to block any legislation from his chamber challenging the president's favored foreign policy tool, which runs afoul of more traditionally conservative approaches to economics.
