Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.
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Jonathan Ladd
Tariffs are actually controlled by law. Trump can only raise tariffs because the current law says the president can declare an emergency and change rates. Congress could actually pass a law that repeals **all** presidential discretion on tariff rates.
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- William Penn
Only path for US to beat Vietnam's manufacturing efficiency and labor cost is AI robots. Minimum requirement for US union worker will be PhD in computer science to play pediatrician to AI robots. A quorum of AI robots can build cars better and faster than 1000 red-hat union workers.
The GOP has been able to stop all of this at any time. They simply won’t.
The problem is that those 20 or so folks are republican senators and a few congressfolk...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1706
The “emergency" is made up. The tariffs are a tax on all Americans. Stop the tariffs.
Capitol Switchboard #: (202) 224-3121.
If you’re registered to vote in the US, contact your Representative and both your Senators too!
But, let's not ask too much of them. They really do work so very hard dodging towns halls and responsibility.
https://bsky.app/profile/sababausa.bsky.social/post/3lauipaydpk2m
They can have fun losing both houses next year if they want to ignore crushing tariffs.
off for the rest of the week since yesterday...
Do Nothing #Republicans
https://www.alternet.org/johnson-shut-house-down/
Trapped w/in the behavior patterns of their disorder, WORLD DOMINATION/ENSLAVEMENT is the agenda as *RUSSIA’S Republicans*—also cultivated over decades—destroy America/Americans to pave the way.
this wouldn't be such a problem but our system was hard-coded for an 18th century pace
a modern update should have elections a lot more often, so we aren't stuck with bad decisions for long
The US is fucked as long as it gives near-total power to one person.