The Daily Fuckup

The House voted on February 11, 2026, to end the emergency declaration used to justify President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, handing the administration a bipartisan rebuke on one of its signature trade moves. The resolution, H.J. Res. 72, passed 219-211, with six Republicans joining Democrats. House members described the measure as a way to terminate the tariff regime tied to Executive Order 14193. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2026/02/11/172/29/CREC-2026-02-11.pdf))

The vote did not finish the job. After House passage, the resolution still had to move through the Senate, and any final repeal effort would still run into a likely presidential veto. That makes the House result important politically and procedurally, but not decisive as policy. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2026/02/11/172/29/CREC-2026-02-11.pdf))

Even so, the scale of the defection mattered. A small bloc of Republicans backed the resolution, giving Democrats the numbers to pass it and exposing discomfort inside Trump’s own party with the Canada tariff fight. Republican supporters said the tariffs were hurting American families and businesses; opponents in the House kept the administration’s trade line intact for the moment, but the roll call showed the issue was no longer a purely party-line exercise. ([newhouse.house.gov](https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/newhouse-votes-eliminate-tariffs-canada))

For Trump, the vote was less a policy defeat than a public sign that his tariff strategy was drawing open resistance in Congress. The House did not repeal the tariffs on its own, but it did put members on record against the emergency declaration behind them and sent the fight to the Senate. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2026/02/11/172/29/CREC-2026-02-11.pdf))