On Wednesday evening, a handful of Republicans in the Senate banded with Democrats and independents on Wednesday to pass a measure subverting the Trump administration’s 25% tariffs on Canadian goods from earlier this year. The Senate voted 51-48 in favor of a resolution from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) that seeks to stop the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump used for tariffs on Canada, citing illegal immigration and fentanyl. Despite the Senate rebuke, Kaine’s resolution faces long odds as it needs approval from the Republican-led House to go into effect — an unlikely prospect. In addition, Trump has indicated he would veto the resolution if it reached him. Senate Republicans who broke ranks in order to support Kaine’s resolution included Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Rand Paul (R-KY). Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) did not vote. “The Maine economy is integrated with Canada, our most important trading partner,” Collins said on the Senate floor, adding later: “The tariffs on Canada would be detrimental to many Maine families and our local economies.” Collins also noted she shared Trump’s goal of “stemming the tide of dangerous fentanyl that flows into the United States,” but insisted that “unlike Mexico and China” — two other countries targeted for tariffs — “Canada is not complicit in this crisis.” In an post on Truth Social before the vote, called out all four of the GOP defectors by name, urging them to reject a “ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans” and urged people in their states to call their senators. Trump contended that fentanyl was facilitating the flow of fentanyl into the United States and emphasized that Kaine’s resolution is “not going anywhere because the House will never approve it and I, as your President, will never sign it.” Earlier this year, Trump imposed 25% tariffs on some imports from Canada, arguing the U.S. neighbor was not doing enough to curb the trafficking of drugs such as fentanyl. Canada said it would respond with 25% retaliatory tariffs. Those penalties against Canada preceded Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement of reciprocal tariffs on dozens of other countries around the world during an event in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday afternoon. When Kaine filed the resolution with Sens. Amy Klobucher (D-MN) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), he said the measure was privileged, meaning the Republican-controlled Senate was required to vote on it in the coming weeks. They argued that tariffs against Canada have disrupted the United States economy in a way that raises costs for American consumers, harms workers and businesses, strains a key trade partnership, and ignites a destructive trade war. On the GOP side, McConnell warned of higher costs and Kentucky industries being harmed, Paul objected to the use of emergency authority, and Murkowski pondered why the U.S. was “fighting” Canada while “making nice” with Russia. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) declared in a statement after the vote on Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) already declared Kaine’s resolution dead on arrival in the House and it will never reach Trump’s desk. Kaine’s “goal” was “to undermine President Trump’s successful work to secure the Northern Border,” he said, adding, “This meaningless messaging resolution will not stop Senate Republicans from making America’s communities safer.”