Donald Trump has used the excuse that there IS an ’emergency’ that allows him to issue any Tariff he want’s and make it stick , WITHOUT coming back to Congress to Ok it….
Tariff’s are actually treaties between nations, and ONLY Congress can ratify them, according to Law and the Constitution
Congress allows a President in certain situation to issue Tariff’s, which are ALSO import taxes, which Congress is suppose to ok within 15 days…
As well ALL know ?
Donald HAS been throwing around tariff’s like a snowball fight….
We’re waiting for The Supreme’s to shut huis actions down also….
(One gets the impression the Supreme ‘s are waiting for Congress to settle this?)
But to Trump & Co’s surprise?
Some Republicans in Congress have joined Democrats in trying to a accert the ‘rules’ to a runaway President….
Trump’s Tariff’s/Import Taxes are NOT popular with Americans if Donald is trying toi sell a $2,000 Tariff check to everyone….
The money FOR such a check IF Congress was to approve it?
From the same Taiff import taxes in consumer good prices paid…
Nice, eh?
Like Buying your own car battery Back, from the crook who just stole it?
The House on Tuesday rejected a Republican effort to change the chamber’s rules and delay for months any vote on canceling President Trump’s tariffs, as G.O.P. defectors rebuked party leaders who have tried for a year to avoid weighing in on levies that are unpopular with many voters.
The defeat cleared the way for Democrats to immediately force a vote on terminating the emergency Mr. Trump declared more than a year ago that imposed tariffs on several nations and kicked off his global trade war.
It came after Republicans had sought for the third time this congressional term to use a procedural trick to bend the rules of time, turning months into a single day in the interest of avoiding a tariff vote, and effectively nullifying their chamber’s statutory authority to have a say on the matter.
By law, the House would ordinarily be required to vote within 15 days on any bid to cancel the tariffs. But by manipulating how long a legislative “day” is, Republican leaders have in effect ignored the calendar.
Speaker Mike Johnson had quietly tucked language into a procedural measure needed to bring up unrelated legislation that would have again changed the rules and blocked a tariff vote until after July 31. But after spending most of Tuesday pressing his members to support the maneuver — including nearly an hour on the House floor while the vote remained open — three Republicans refused to do so.
The Republican opponents who broke ranks and joined all Democrats in voting against the measure were Representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Don Bacon of Nebraska and Kevin Kiley of California.
“I’m not in favor of changing the definition of a day in order to diminish the power of members of the House,” Mr. Kiley said in an interview before voting down the effort. “I object to smuggling in some extraneous provision that diminishes the power of the House.”
For a year, House Republicans had successfully used the same trick to shield their members from having to choose between supporting tariffs many of their constituents opposed and angering Mr. Trump by voting to cancel them. Their latest effort had blocked action until after Jan. 31….
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With the procedural block expired, Democrats, led by Representative Gregory W. Meeks of New York, have queued up resolutions that seek to end the president’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and Brazil, hoping to build on the momentum from similar measures that were passed by the Senate in October last year.
Mr. Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose some of his tariffs last year under the National Emergencies Act. That law allows any member of the House to challenge an emergency by introducing a resolution that must receive a vote after 15 days.
The rule that failed on Tuesday would have declared the period between Feb. 10 and July 31 as just one day, meaning that such resolutions would be stuck in a sort of legislative purgatory and not receive a vote during that time….
Note…
Reports ARE that if Trump loses his Traaif/import tax actions?
He’ll try some other ‘dodge’ to get around having Congress have the last word on things….
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