{"id":200170,"date":"2026-02-12T19:51:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/six-republicans-join-democrats-in-vote-to-block-donald-trumps-canada-tariffs-us-politics-live-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:51:05","slug":"six-republicans-join-democrats-in-vote-to-block-donald-trumps-canada-tariffs-us-politics-live-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/six-republicans-join-democrats-in-vote-to-block-donald-trumps-canada-tariffs-us-politics-live-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Republicans join Democrats in vote to block Donald Trump\u2019s Canada tariffs – US politics live – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

A DHS shutdown is all but inevitable when the stopgap measure expires on Friday
Senate Democrats blocked a funding bill to keep the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) open on Thursday. The legislation failed to clear the 60 vote threshold needed, and fell almost entirely along party lines in a 52-47 vote<\/strong>. Senator John Fetterman<\/strong> was the only Democratic lawmaker who voted for the bill.
This means that a department shutdown is all but inevitable, when the stopgap measure expires on Friday.
A reminder that the DHS appropriations bill that failed in the upper chamber today was the same legislation that Senate Democrats rejected just weeks ago, in favor of a short term measure to negotiate guardrails on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the wake of surge of agents in Minnesota and the fatal shooting of two US citizens in Minneapolis.
When it comes to the stalled negotiations on Capitol Hill to pass a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Trump said that Democrats\u2019 demands \u2013\u00a0which include requiring federal immigration officers to no longer wear masks in the field \u2013 would make law enforcement \u201ctotally vulnerable\u201d.
\u201cThey have some things that are really very hard to approve,\u201d Trump said.
When asked what the administration\u2019s message is to climate scientists and experts who say the rollback could have a catastrophic impact on people\u2019s health, the president simply said: \u201cI tell them, \u2018don\u2019t worry about it\u2019. Because it has nothing to do with public health. This was all a scam, giant scam.\u201d
The endangerment finding is based on substantial research that determined the negative impact of greenhouse gases on public health and welfare.
As he announced the repeal of the endangerment finding, Lee Zeldin said that the determination was used by the Obama and Biden administrations to \u201csteamroll into existence a left wing wishlist of costly climate policies, electric vehicle mandates and other requirements that assaulted consumer choice and affordability\u201d.
After Zeldin finished speaking, Trump said that his EPA administrator\u2019s remarks were \u201clong\u201d.
In response to today\u2019s announcement the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)<\/strong> critcized the decision.
\u201cThe science couldn\u2019t be clearer,\u201d FAS wrote<\/a> in a statement. \u201cUnchecked emissions of greenhouse gases are increasing the frequency and toll of disasters like flash flooding in Texas, catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles, and stifling heat domes that repeatedly blanket huge swathes of the country. Revoking the endangerment finding would shove science aside in favor of special interests \u2013 and at the expense of American health and wellbeing.<\/strong>\u201d
Dharna notes that Thursday\u2019s rollback comes a year and a half after Trump requested $1bn from oil bosses<\/a> on the campaign trail \u2013\u00a0promising to scrap environmental rules if elected.
The president notes that the endangerment finding \u201chad no basis in fact, had none whatsoever, and it had no basis in law\u201d.<\/strong> However, my colleague Dharna Noor<\/strong> notes that the determination was based on a large body of peer-reviewed research and has repeatedly defended and upheld in federal courts<\/strong>.
She reports<\/a> that since it was codified, the evidence showing greenhouse gas emissions endanger society has only gotten stronger, said Joseph Goffman, former assistant administrator of EPA\u2019s office of air and radiation at EPA.
\u201cScience did not change when Donald Trump<\/a> was inaugurated,\u201d<\/strong> said Goffman, who helped write and implement the Clean Air Act and worked directly on the endangerment finding.
Trump<\/strong> says they\u2019re repealing the \u201cridiculous\u201d endangerment finding and terminating all additional green emissions standards imposed \u201cunnecessarily\u201d on vehicle models between 2012 and 2027 and beyond.
He says this will save American consumers \u201ctrillions of dollars\u201d and lower the cost of a new vehicle by \u201cclose to $3,000\u201d, though he doesn\u2019t say how.
Trump<\/strong> and Zeldin<\/strong> have now arrived. They\u2019re here to announce \u201cthe single largest deregulatory action in American history \u2026 by far\u201d, Trump says.
Trump announces that they are \u201cofficially terminating the so-called endangerment finding<\/strong>\u201d, which he dubs a \u201cdisastrous Obama-era policy\u201d that he says damaged the auto industry and drove up prices for consumers.
Climate leaders gathered outside the Environmental Protection Agency<\/strong> (EPA) headquarters yesterday to condemn the Trump administration\u2019s plans to repeal the legal finding underpinning all federal climate regulations<\/strong>, and promised to fight against the rollback.
\u201cThis is corruption, plain and simple. Old-fashioned, dirty political corruption,\u201d said Sheldon Whitehouse<\/strong>, senator for Rhode Island, at the rally.
<\/path><\/svg>This is an agency that has been so infiltrated by the corrupt fossil fuel industry that it has turned an agency of government into the weapon of the fossil fuel polluters.
The rescinding of the 2009 endangerment finding will be finalized<\/a> by Donald Trump<\/strong> and the EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin<\/strong>, this afternoon. The seminal ruling established the legal basis to regulate planet-warming pollution under the Clean Air Act.
We\u2019re waiting to watch Trump\u2019s announcement here<\/a>, and we\u2019ll bring you any key lines that come from it when it gets under way. Right now it\u2019s just the podium and a placard bearing the words:
<\/path><\/svg>Largest deregulation in US history.
During the Senate homeland security hearing with top federal immigration officials earlier, senator John Fetterman<\/strong>, of Pennslyvania, told his fellow Democratic lawmakers not to allow the Department of Homeland Security to shut down at the end of the week as they try to negotiate an ICE<\/strong> overhaul with the Trump administration<\/a>.
He pointed out that Trump\u2019s sweeping domestic policy legislation, which was passed last year, had already provided ICE with $75bn<\/strong>. So in effect, Fetterman argued, shutting down the DHS would just punish other agencies under the department, including TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and CISA<\/strong>.
He told senators:
<\/path><\/svg>I want to remind everybody that you have … ICE has plenty of money, and that vote to shut DHS down will have no functional impact on ICE because they have that $75bn<\/strong> from the \u2018Big Beautiful Bill\u2019.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (paywall)<\/a>, the Trump administration smuggled thousands of Starlink terminals into Iran after the regime\u2019s brutal crackdown on demonstrations last month<\/strong> in an effort to keep dissidents online following Tehran\u2019s internet blackout.
Citing US officials, the WSJ reports that the US covertly sent roughly 6,000 of the satellite-internet kits into Iran, the first time the US has directly sent Starlink into the country.
Donald Trump<\/strong> was aware of the deliveries, officials told the paper, but they didn\u2019t know if he or someone else directly approved of the plan. The White House declined to comment on the report.
Fulton County commission chairman Robb Pitts addressed the possibility that the FBI seizure of elections records last month may be a pretext for the state to attempt to take over the county\u2019s elections apparatus ahead of the 2026 election.<\/strong>
\u201cWhat I think is going on is a serious attempt to overturn and to take control of the election in Fulton County, Georgia,\u201d Pitt said. \u201cThe president himself has mentioned some 15 other states that he has an interest in. And Georgia would be at the top of that list, for a number of reasons.\u201d
Pitts said he had been in contact with leaders in Detroit and Philadelphia, two other cities that the president has attacked, questioning the integrity of their elections. \u201cThey\u2019re watching very closely what\u2019s happening here,\u201d he said.
Pitts noted that state senator Greg Dolezal, a Republican running for lieutenant governor, yesterday called for the state board of elections to take over Fulton County\u2019s election administration, citing the FBI raid.
The world is watching Fulton County because of what is at stake in 2026 and 2028, he said. \u201cThis is campaign season,\u201d Pitts said of Dolezal\u2019s comments. \u201cI\u2019m sure there\u2019ll be others \u2026 But that\u2019s not going to happen here now in Fulton County, Georgia. We have had successful elections.\u201d
In response to Tom Homan\u2019s announcement that the immigration crackdown in Minnesota is ending, the Hennepin County sheriff\u2019s office \u2013 which oversees the state\u2019s largest county \u2013 said it will still not \u201cconduct civil immigration enforcement,\u201d adding that its policies remain \u201cunchanged\u201d<\/strong>.
Homan has touted cooperation<\/a> between local law enforcement and federal agents, particularly by securing access to county jails to arrest people at the moment of their release. But Trump\u2019s border czar has not specified which counties have agreed to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In response to questioning from the committee\u2019s top Democrat, senator Gary Peters<\/strong>, both Todd Lyons<\/strong> and Rodney Scott<\/strong> said that neither of them gave information to homeland security secretary Kristi Noem<\/strong> for her to label Alex Pretti<\/strong> as a \u201cdomestic terrorist\u201d<\/strong>, after he was fatally shot by immigration agents in January.
\u201cHow would she possibly come to that kind of conclusion?,\u201d<\/strong> Peters asked the officials. Lyons and Scott both said they couldn\u2019t speculate on Noem\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

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