Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky predicted that President Donald Trump's tariffs could lead to the "political decimation" of the Republican Party.Newsweek reached out to the U.S. Treasury for comment via email.

The chamber voted 52-48 to begin debate on a multitrillion-dollar plan that would cut taxes, boost spending for immigration enforcement and the military, and raise the debt limit.

"When [President William McKinley], most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told reporters. “When Smoot and Hawley put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically.”

Four Republican and every Democratic senator vote to oppose Trump’s Canada tariffs in resolution - Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and Susan Collins join every Democrat to oppose Trump’s ta

Mitch McConnell and several other prominent Republicans are breaking rank with President Donald Trump over his universal tariff plan, which was formally announced on April 2

The tariffs were fueling the strongest GOP pushback since Trump's inauguration, though Speaker Mike Johnson defended them

President Donald Trump pressured Sens. McConnell, Paul, Collins and Murkowski in a Truth Social post ahead of an upcoming vote to scuttle his Canadian tariffs.

Republican Rep. John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, broke with President Thomas Jefferson in large part over foreign policy. In a political sense, it represented the first major setback of Jefferson's two-term administration.

What is wrong with them, other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trump said of Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and two other Senate Republicans.