Yesterday, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on all imports into the United States.

It is a 10% tariff on every country with higher rates on some nations.

It's a move being denounced by both of Kentucky's Republican U.S. senators.

Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul joined two other Republicans and all Democrats to vote against the tariff on Canada.

Specifically, they voted to end the emergency powers that enable Trump to impose the tariff.

The vote was 51 to 48.

It is mostly symbolic.

The Republican led House would also have to agree to change the emergency law, and President Trump would have to sign off on the change, which is unlikely.

Here's a sound from Senator Rand Paul on the U.S. Senate floor during the debate.

With regard to tariffs, let's be very clear.

Tariffs are simply taxes.

Tariffs don't punish foreign governments.

They punish American families.

When we tax imports, we raise the price of everything from groceries to smartphones to washing machines to prescription drugs.

Every dollar collected in tariff revenue comes straight out of the pockets of American consumers.

Conservatives used to understand that tariffs are taxes on the American people.

Conservatives used to be uniformly opposed to raising taxes because we wanted the private marketplace, the private individuals, to keep more of their incomes.

We were always for lower taxes.

And yet now the mantra that's coming is we want higher taxes.

What happened?

Did we all of a sudden give up all the things we used to believe in as conservatives?

I, for one, haven't.

I still think more taxes is bad for the economy.

More money taking out of the productive sector, the private sector and giving to the government is a mistake.

There's more.

Senator Paul also says he's against the principle of one person having the power to raise tariffs.

He says this is a decision that should involve Congress.

Then Senator Mitch McConnell put out this statement.

Tariffs drive up the cost of goods and services.

They are a tax on everyday working Americans.

Preserving the long term prosperity of American industry and workers requires working with our allies, not against them.

With so much at stake globally, the last thing we need is to pick fights with the very friends with whom we should be working with to protect against China's predatory and unfair trade practices, unquote.

Senator McConnell says the tariffs will be hard on everyone, but especially Kentucky farmers who sell their crops around the globe.

Plus, Kentuckians in the bourbon industry and Kentuckians who work in the manufacturing sector.

Kentucky Democrats are also criticizing the new tariffs.

We have a statement from Colman Ridge, chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party.

Quote, with these tariffs, President Trump is gambling with the lives of hardworking Kentuckians who are still waiting for him to fulfill his promise of lowering the cost of living on day one.

Instead, he is doubling down on demands that have handcuffed our signature bourbon industry and jeopardized billions of dollars in trade with Kentucky's top export markets like Canada.

Trump's hollow promises are anything but liberation to people who will soon be paying thousands more each year for everyday needs, as a direct result of his destructive tariffs, unquote.