The Senate voted Wednesday evening to preserve President Donald Trump’s emergency powers justifying his sweeping global tariffs that he imposed on most countries.

Three Senate Republicans — Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — joined their Democratic colleagues in a failed vote of 49 to 49 to terminate the president’s broad tariffs on imported goods.  Absences from Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, who supported the resolution to undo the president’s tariffs, prevented the measure from passing the upper chamber.

It was the second time in less than a month that senators had forced a vote attempting to reject key planks of the president’s tariff policy. Senators shot down Trump’s Canada tariffs 51 to 48 on April 2 with four Republicans joining Senate Democrats to rescind the president’s emergency powers.

Both votes were largely symbolic because Speaker Mike Johnson has used procedural rules to prevent floor consideration of the resolutions in the House.