President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will create an “External Revenue Service” to collect “Tariffs, Duties and all Revenue from Foreign sources.”
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Can you please have your journalists ask him why this new group will be collecting tariffs rather than the CBP, and where the money will be going, specifically. Creating new government entities to funnel money to private interests seems to be hallmark of the incoming administration.
Truman declared an emergency to keep the steel mills running, and the Supreme stopped him. There is no emergency in the USA at the moment that would justify suspending normal governmental functions, true? The biggest emergency is that Trump is the POTUS and doesn't know how to govern.
I wonder if he thinks he can pilfer from that with out being found out since it's "external". Was this Elon's idea too because he got tired of explaining how things work to him?
Trump is about to rename the department in the US Customs and Border Protection that collects tariffs to the External Tariff Agency (ETA) and do a victory lap like he did when he renamed the US Air Force Space Command to the Space Force.
I’m Canadian, and Canada is in “chaos” with a “celebrity” PM Trudeau on the way out - thank god! Trump is out of his depth, Canada and the USA have “integrated” auto, oil/gas and defence sectors that can’t function independently. Your Chicago and Midwest refineries rely on our heavy Alberta crude
What a joke. He can't create anything. It's up to Congress. It's just a distraction to convince his cult that other countries pay the tariffs. I still am waiting for his plan to lower the cost of eggs.
Just another way Trump is trying to fool the gullible into believing the ridiculous "tariffs" on cars and goods from China and Mexico, are not going to be paid by them, but by those nasty offending nations.
The Commerce Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection already handle the job. Oops guess the former President and self proclaimed genius didn't learn that. Dolt
Is this another joke usurping the Congress that has revenue responsibility and authority to lend that authority via legislation fx to Customs and the IRS?
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It too will cost the US billions of dollars ……
A) he still doesn't understand tariffs
B) they let him show the world he doesn't understand tariffs