Live updates: Trump hours away from imposing massive  tariffs for 'Liberation Day'
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President Trump’s long promised day of reciprocal tariffs has arrived, with a Rose Garden event to announce them set for Wednesday afternoon.

“It’s liberation day in America,” Trump posted in all caps to his Truth Social platform around 7 a.m.

Also early Wednesday, the president pressured former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Republicans he’s labeled “disloyal” in the upper chamber to vote against Democrats’ resolution to bar his emergency declaration to impose tariffs on Canada.

Meanwhile, Republicans were handed mixed results in Tuesday’s elections. They kept both open Florida House seats in their control, though by diminished margins from their wins in those districts just five months ago.

In Wisconsin, liberal Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford bested her conservative opponent by 10 points. Elon Musk had campaigned for Brad Schimel in the state on Sunday.

Trump and Musk, however, touted Wisconsin’s passage of a voter ID ballot measure. Musk called the passage of the ballot measure “the most important thing” in a post on social platform early Wednesday.

The Senate is in session on Wednesday; the House holds hearings but canceled votes until next week.

Follow along here all day for updates on this news and more.

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