Vice President J.D. Vance cast the deciding vote to shoot down a bipartisan resolution to cancel President Trump's national emergency declaration to impose tariffs, and thus the Senate rejected the attempt to block the tariffs, but the vote was close. teleSUR
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00:00On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate rejected a bipartisan bill to repeal President Donald Trump's tariffs.
00:05After a 49-49 deadlock on the resolution, Vice President J.D. Vance intervened casting a decisive vote to maintain President Donald Trump's trade policies.
00:14Despite bipartisan support from Senators Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski, along with the Democrats,
00:21the resolution failed to secure the necessary votes for adoption, largely due to the absence of Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who was unwell.
00:28All the while, Trump has remained resolute in his tariff stance, asserting his readiness to veto any such resolution in defense of his trade policies.
00:47The United States government imposes new sanctions on seven entities for trading in Iranian oil.
00:52In the midst of the negotiations on the nuclear agreement, Washington announces these illegal and illegitimate measures against seven entities related to the trade of Iranian oil products.
01:01All this is part of the U.S. strategy to put pressure on Tehran in the middle of the talks.
01:05The State Department has announced that the sanctions target four sellers and one buyer of Iranian petrochemical products,
01:12as well as a maritime management company, accused of managing Iran's energy supply chain.