This Republican senator is leading the charge against Trump's tariffs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : I am a supporter of Donald Trump.
65% : "He's very respectful of Donald Trump, but he's also very respectful of his own principles," Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota) said, describing Paul as "the conscience of the libertarian faction of our party.
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45% : "He and I call ourselves the Ben Franklin Caucus," said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), who has worked with Paul for years on legislation to limit government surveillance and restrict presidential power.
41% : "I voted for and supported President Trump, but I don't support the rule of one person."
39% : Trump wrote in a late-night Truth Social post.
36% : In a brief interview, Paul said a handful of Senate Republicans had told him privately that they supported his efforts even if they were unwilling to defy Trump by voting to overturn his tariffs.
26% : "Congressional Republicans are deferring and delegating and abdicating their responsibility to Trump," Welch said.
26% : "Tariffs have also led to political decimation," Paul told reporters recently, referencing the devastating political fallout Republicans faced after levying tariffs in 1890 and in the 1930s -- after which they lost the House and Senate for 60 years.
25% : "I still think tariffs are a terrible idea, but Dios Mio, what courage, what tenacity," Paul recently wrote on X of Trump.
11% : Trump blasted Paul and the other Republican senators who voted to nullify his tariffs on Canada this week as "unbelievably disloyal." "What is wrong with them, other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly known as TDS?"
10% : " As many of his colleagues are ceding Congress' authority to Trump on the power of the purse and other issues, Paul has been an inconvenient voice pushing lawmakers to reassert themselves.
6% : " Paul joined GOP Senators Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) in voting with Democrats to scrap the national emergency that Trump declared to levy tariffs on Canada.

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