For the third time in three days, the Senate was asked whether it approves of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. And for the third time, they said “no.”

This time, the vote was to end the national emergency Trump used to declare global “reciprocal” tariffs, the sweeping duties of between 10 and 50 percent that he imposed on nearly every country in the world this summer.

The vote passed 51-47, with the same group of four Republican senators crossing party lines as on previous votes this week disapproving of Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Brazil: Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. A similar vote in April failed due to the absence of McConnell and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).

The series of symbolic rebukes this week in the Senate stood in stark contrast to Trump’s nearly weeklong trip to Asia, where he touted his use of tariffs as a means to secure new trade agreements and unprecedented foreign investment commitments. The resolution the Senate approved on Thursday takes aim at the tariffs that have served as a foundation for those agreements.

The vote is unlikely to undermine the agreements, however, since House Republican leadership has blocked votes on Trump’s tariffs until January. Even if the House did eventually approve that or other tariff resolutions, Congress would need a two-thirds majority to overcome a presidential veto.

Paul, a co-sponsor of the resolution approved Thursday, as well as the two other resolutions the Senate approved this week, criticized Trump’s use of a 1977 emergency law to impose the global duties. The president claimed they were warranted because the country’s trade deficit qualifies as a national emergency, an idea Paul pooh-poohed.

“I think that it’s a fallacy that it means anything,” Paul said about the national trade deficit at an event Wednesday night hosted at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “I think it’s meaningless. I think it’s a completely meaningless accounting of trade that sends no real signals of value or use.”

Still the Kentucky senator, a frequent critic of Trump’s trade policies, said he did not expect the tariff resolutions to ultimately succeed in tying Trump’s hands. “I think in order to get to [two thirds of Congress], it would take an economic calamity,” Paul said. “Which I don’t wish on anyone, or particularly our country.”