House GOP blocks Democrats from forcing vote on repealing Trump tariffs

GOP lawmaker Don Bacon to introduce Bill today limiting Donald Trump’s tariff authority amid Republican dissent

Rep. Don Bacon plans to introduce a bill on Monday to curb President Trump’s authority to impose tariffs without congressional approval. The move follows backlash from some Republicans after Trump’s sweeping tariffs rattled markets.

Trump's biggest gamble: Tariffs test his presidency, and everyone else

A White House policy decision – not the emergence of a deadly virus or a terrorist attack – has shaken the global order. What happens next?

When a day is not "a day"

This is from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American of today (emphasis added): The Constitution gives to Congress, not the president, the power to impose tariffs. But the International Emergency Economic Powers Act allows the president to...

Tariffs Offer Latest Example of Trump Remaking Republican Party

The current debates over tariffs are the latest example of the Trump era sending conservatives back to the drawing board.

Congress just made it harder for Congress to block Trump's tariffs

Trump's reckless tariff policies are threatening to drive the economy into a ditch—and Congress just made it harder to take away the keys.

House Quietly Ducks Trump Tariff Vote

The big news from Congress yesterday was the House passage of a continuing resolution (CR) that would keep the government open through the end of September, staving off a Friday shutdown deadline. I wrote more here about the bill, which would largely maintain the $1.7 trillion discretionary budget from last year, while increasing defense spending by about $6 billion and decreasing other forms of spending by about $13 billion. The measure passed …