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Jeff Flake says he’s ready to put his vote where his mouth is to push back on President Trump’s trade offensive.
The retiring senator from Arizona, one of Trump’s toughest Republican critics in Congress, has begged off going rogue against the GOP’s razor-thin Senate majority to force a confrontation with the president on trade, or the other handful of issues where Flake says Trump is violating traditional conservative principles. But on Sunday, he said he will block Trump’s judicial nominees until the Senate votes on a bill to limit the president's power to levy tariffs.
“I do think that unless we can actually exercise something other than just approving the president’s executive calendar, his nominees, judges, that we have no reason to be there,” Flake said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “I think myself and a number of senators, at least a few of us, will stand up and say — let’s not move any more judges until we get a vote, for example, on tariffs.”
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