Senate Votes to Undo Freeze on Chinese Solar Tariffs, Setting Up Showdown With Biden

The Senate narrowly advanced a joint resolution reversing the Biden administration’s emergency shield against tariffs for some Chinese-made solar panels.
Now, the ball is in President Joe Biden’s court. The White House has said that he’ll veto the joint resolution, warning that the measure would “create deep uncertainty for jobs and investments in the solar supply chain and the solar installation market.”
If he issues that veto, it would be the third of his presidency—and the pro-tariff legislation would need two-thirds of the vote in both chambers to overcome it.
The final vote in the Senate was 51 “yeas” and 41 “nays.”…}

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