Bill
S.J.Res. 88 (119th): A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.
A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.
Summary
Recorded summary
This joint resolution would terminate the national emergency that President Trump declared on April 2, 2025. That declaration imposed a 10% tariff on most U.S. imports and additional duties on specified trading partners.
Theological note: Scripture grounds rightful authority in God's ordering of civil power, which calls rulers to justice and restraint and treats the abuse of unchecked authority as a concern of general equity. Trade tariffs are a prudential economic matter, but the use of emergency declarations to impose broad economic measures raises a question about whether executive power is being exercised within lawful limits.
Scoring
How this bill is scored
- Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
- Lane: appropriations. Category: corruption_stewardship. Lane tag: general equity.
- Lane: emergency_powers. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: foreign_policy. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
- Lane: tariffs. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: trade_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
- Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
- Roll 600: On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 88. Vote type: final_passage.
- Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure concerns a prudential trade policy dispute about tariffs, which does not by itself involve direct moral evil. It also bears on whether an emergency declaration is being used to impose sweeping economic burdens without ordinary legislative checks, a real structural concern. Because it combines a prudential economic question with a concern about executive overreach, the polarity is mixed rather than good or evil.
- Theological note: Scripture grounds rightful authority in God's ordering of civil power, which calls rulers to justice and restraint and treats the abuse of unchecked authority as a concern of general equity. Trade tariffs are a prudential economic matter, but the use of emergency declarations to impose broad economic measures raises a question about whether executive power is being exercised within lawful limits.
Debt and war Cloture and Tier 1 Procedural votes Scoring mechanics
Roll
Recorded votes
Roll 600 · October 30, 2025, 12:35 PM · On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 88 · Joint Resolution Passed (51-47)
Yea
- ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA
- BALDWIN, TAMMY
- BENNET, MICHAEL F.
- BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
- BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
- BOOKER, CORY A.
- CANTWELL, MARIA
- COLLINS, SUSAN M.
- COONS, CHRISTOPHER A.
- CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
- DUCKWORTH, L. TAMMY
- DURBIN, RICHARD J.
- FETTERMAN, JOHN KARL
- GALLEGO, RUBEN
- GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN
- HASSAN, MARGARET WOOD
- HEINRICH, MARTIN
- HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
- HIRONO, MAZIE K.
- KAINE, TIMOTHY MICHAEL
- KELLY, MARK
- KIM, ANDY
- KING, ANGUS S. JR.
- KLOBUCHAR, AMY
- LUJAN, BEN RAY
- MARKEY, EDWARD SEN.
- MCCONNELL, MITCH
- MERKLEY, JEFFREY ALAN
- MURKOWSKI, LISA
- MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER S
- MURRAY, PATTY
- OSSOFF, T. JONATHAN
- PADILLA, ALEX
- PAUL, RAND
- PETERS, GARY
- REED, JOHN F.
- ROSEN, JACKY
- SANDERS, BERNARD
- SCHATZ, BRIAN
- SCHIFF, ADAM
- SCHUMER, CHARLES E.
- SHAHEEN, JEANNE
- SLOTKIN, ELISSA
- SMITH, TINA
- VAN HOLLEN, CHRIS
- WARNER, MARK ROBERT
- WARNOCK, RAPHAEL
- WARREN, ELIZABETH
- WELCH, PETER
- WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON
- WYDEN, RONALD L.
Nay
- BANKS, JAMES E. HON.
- BARRASSO, JOHN A
- BLACKBURN, MARSHA MRS.
- BOOZMAN, SEN. JOHN
- BRITT, KATIE BOYD
- BUDD, THEODORE P
- CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE
- CASSIDY, WILLIAM M.
- CORNYN, JOHN SEN
- COTTON, THOMAS
- CRAMER, KEVIN MR.
- CRAPO, MICHAEL D
- CRUZ, RAFAEL EDWARD TED
- CURTIS, JOHN
- DAINES, STEVE
- ERNST, JONI K
- FISCHER, DEBRA S.
- GRAHAM, LINDSEY O.
- GRASSLEY, CHARLES E
- HAGERTY, BILL
- HAWLEY, JOSHUA DAVID SEN
- HOEVEN, JOHN
- HUSTED, JON
- HYDE-SMITH, CINDY
- JOHNSON, RON HAROLD MR.
- JUSTICE, JAMES CONLEY II
- KENNEDY, JOHN NEELY
- LANKFORD, JAMES PAUL
- LEE, MIKE
- LUMMIS, CYNTHIA MARIE MRS.
- MARSHALL, ROGER W
- MCCORMICK, DAVE
- MOODY, ASHLEY
- MORAN, JERRY
- MORENO, BERNIE
- MULLIN, MARKWAYNE
- RICKETTS, PETE
- RISCH, JAMES E MR.
- ROUNDS, MIKE
- SCOTT, RICK SEN
- SCOTT, TIMOTHY E.
- SHEEHY, TIM
- SULLIVAN, DAN
- THUNE, JOHN R.
- TILLIS, THOM R SEN
- TUBERVILLE, THOMAS H
- YOUNG, TODD CHRISTOPHER