The Senate pushing this to a vote – even if it passes but dies in the House – is not great for Trump and his case with SCOTUS. It’s a data point that, yes – Congress actually does have tariff power, and they have *not* universally relinquished that to the executive branch.
The fact that speaker Johnson is such a lapdog for Donnie doesn’t change the fact that Congress is supposed to be in-charge on this. Them attempting to re-assert their power is not good for his case.
Berserker76 on
Find it strange that the Senate has been working through the shutdown, but Mike Johnson sent everyone home, so the House is doing nothing.
No I’m not, Johnson does not want to swear in the new House member, so they can prevent a vote to release the Epstein files. Not that ultimately it does not matter, the Senate wound have to pass it and Trump could still veto it.
We are so screwed.
Ds1018 on
They’d need the house to pass it, which isn’t in session and likely wouldn’t even vote on it. Trump could just veto it anyway. And they’d need a 2/3rds majority to override his veto… I have my doubts enough Rs to override a veto would stop kissing his booty hole long enough to vote against him.
level2topgunlanding on
It would seem when the President decided to just raise/create additional tariffs because of a TV commercial being aired that he didn’t like, proves the importance of not having a President with unilateral decision making over the course of the economics. I hope that this gets brought up in a week to the right people. Or the right people observed that.
Pattonator70 on
I cannot figure out why big anti-tariff GOP senators and there are at least a dozen didn’t push this. The whole freedom caucus and anyone who took Econ 101 should be against these tariffs.
bob_scratchit on
Even if SCOTUS rules his tariffs illegal, he’ll still have made hundreds, if not over a billion in crypto schemes by intentionally devaluing the dollar.
ICLazeru on
Holy sh*t, is a house of congress going to actually do something about this sh*t show? Or at least try to.
Here’s a telling data point. When Trump and Xi talked about dropping the tariffs in exchange for China buying soybeans, the markets bounced up, investor sentiment saw this as a good thing.
Problem, dropping tariffs and China buying soybeans is where we were at the beginning.
The market buoyed at the idea if going back to what we had before. Think about that.
QuirkyBreadfruit on
Although this is heartening even as an attempt, I have to say this is all so unbelievably backward to me. Congress should not be in the position of voting anything about tariffs that the president does is illegal, it is theirs by default. It’s so bizarre.
The *only* way this seems reasonable to me is as an attempt by one chamber to demonstrate to SCOTUS that they are unhappy with the way Trump is behaving.
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The Senate pushing this to a vote – even if it passes but dies in the House – is not great for Trump and his case with SCOTUS. It’s a data point that, yes – Congress actually does have tariff power, and they have *not* universally relinquished that to the executive branch.
The fact that speaker Johnson is such a lapdog for Donnie doesn’t change the fact that Congress is supposed to be in-charge on this. Them attempting to re-assert their power is not good for his case.
Find it strange that the Senate has been working through the shutdown, but Mike Johnson sent everyone home, so the House is doing nothing.
No I’m not, Johnson does not want to swear in the new House member, so they can prevent a vote to release the Epstein files. Not that ultimately it does not matter, the Senate wound have to pass it and Trump could still veto it.
We are so screwed.
They’d need the house to pass it, which isn’t in session and likely wouldn’t even vote on it. Trump could just veto it anyway. And they’d need a 2/3rds majority to override his veto… I have my doubts enough Rs to override a veto would stop kissing his booty hole long enough to vote against him.
It would seem when the President decided to just raise/create additional tariffs because of a TV commercial being aired that he didn’t like, proves the importance of not having a President with unilateral decision making over the course of the economics. I hope that this gets brought up in a week to the right people. Or the right people observed that.
I cannot figure out why big anti-tariff GOP senators and there are at least a dozen didn’t push this. The whole freedom caucus and anyone who took Econ 101 should be against these tariffs.
Even if SCOTUS rules his tariffs illegal, he’ll still have made hundreds, if not over a billion in crypto schemes by intentionally devaluing the dollar.
Holy sh*t, is a house of congress going to actually do something about this sh*t show? Or at least try to.
Here’s a telling data point. When Trump and Xi talked about dropping the tariffs in exchange for China buying soybeans, the markets bounced up, investor sentiment saw this as a good thing.
Problem, dropping tariffs and China buying soybeans is where we were at the beginning.
The market buoyed at the idea if going back to what we had before. Think about that.
Although this is heartening even as an attempt, I have to say this is all so unbelievably backward to me. Congress should not be in the position of voting anything about tariffs that the president does is illegal, it is theirs by default. It’s so bizarre.
The *only* way this seems reasonable to me is as an attempt by one chamber to demonstrate to SCOTUS that they are unhappy with the way Trump is behaving.