So, the GOP Senate gets to posture that they’re on the side of farmers, knowing full well that the House won’t pass it. They’re just pandering to their base. Politics as usual. I bet they cleared this with Trump beforehand.
This is all bullshit.
Even if the House does pass it, trump won’t sign it.
Make him golf for 10 days and then it automatically becomes law.
I wish he would golf for the rest of his life.
They should be voting to axe all of them and reiterate he does not actually have that power since the courts have not been doing their job.
Despite the opposition in the Senate, the House is unlikely to take any similar action. House Republicans created a rule earlier this year that will block resolutions on the tariffs from getting a floor vote.
he tariff resolutions are a rebuke to the tariffs themselves and to Trump overstepping his authority and bypassing Congress. Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, told reporters that the symbolic opposition should catch the president’s attention.
House Republicans created a rule earlier this year that will block resolutions on the tariffs from getting a floor vote.
When I heard it described, they said basically that the House decided to automatically rubber stamp whatever tariffs Trump made.
Here is the first clause of Article I Section 7 of the US Constitution:
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives;
While this means that they do have the power to create a bill that delegates their authority, it’s hard to see this tariff nonsense as anything but an abdication of their constitutional duties and a weakening of the checks and balances that are supposed to be built-in to our democracy.
Maybe the founding fathers never expected representatives to just hand over their power so easily. Like, no matter how idiot-proof you make something, America will always invent a bigger idiot.
Many founders worried over party politics to their death beds. Their nightmare? A demagogue with such a grip over his party he can basically command congress.
That’s what we got.
Congress aren’t handing over power; it was already taken from them before the term. Their hands are tied.
It’s funny that the EC was created in part to prevent Trump, but it’s what allowed him to gain power in the first place.
Bullshit. Congress is enabling him. They could remove him entirely if they all chose to.
It would be political suicide. I bet most of them would get recalled.
There’s no way to recall a member of Congress. They would only lose their next election. But the deed would be done.
The ones with the courage to stand against trump have already been weeded out by retirement or primary. The sitting members are the replacements true to the cult. They have abdicated their responsibility.
Congress aren’t handing over power; it was already taken from them before the term. Their hands are tied.
I mean, all they’d have to do is vote against the party line. Even some Republicans once had that much backbone.
I don’t think that gives them power to delegate.
Of course if it went to SCOTUS they’d say it’s very cool and very legal.
So it’s not ending anytime soon because the house has to sign off and they’re shut down indefinitely as a last ditch effort to keep the Epstein files from getting out
created a rule earlier this year that will block resolutions on the tariffs from getting a floor vote.
Worse than that, they have a rule now.
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This country is so busted. We literally have to start fresh
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
General strike is a great idea.
I keep chewing on the cables with no luck.
Three times.
Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, told reporters that the symbolic opposition should catch the president’s attention.
How’s that “symbolic opposition” been working out for us for the last 10 months, Tim? We might as well refer to you guys as symbolic representatives at this point.
10 months? Try 30 years, at least
Nothing will stop it. Just like he wasn’t supposed to use the national guard and then this week, whoops!
did they name the bill Stop Trump From Fucking Shit Up?
No no no. Trump pulled this bullshit. Let him lie in his bed that he made
We’re long past the phase where congress can regain control of this. Even if they did somehow get this through the house Trump would ignore it.
This is why the people hoping on winning midterms are misguided. He’s already taken ownership of congress’s powers when his own party runs both chambers. He won’t give it back if the democrats win.
This is why the people hoping on winning midterms are misguided.
If your message is “don’t bother voting”, please see yourself out. We no longer have time or patience for that kind of pro-authoritarian propaganda.
Nope. Every battle needs to be fought against the fascists. But there are a lot of people not acting now in the hopes it will save them. It won’t.
Oh, yes in that case I agree with you, people should be getting more active.
The best thing everyone could do is get more involved with their local politics. Far too many town councils are filled with the kind of people who run the HOAs you hear horror stories about. Their voices and choices need more competition.
Politics for the news. While nothing actually changes.
