However, not always in a good way.
From todays Letters From an American:
"The Constitution gives to Congress, not the president, the power to impose tariffs. But the International Emergency Economic Powers Act allows the president to impose tariffs if he declares a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act, which Trump did on February 1. That same law allows Congress to end such a declaration of emergency, but if such a termination is introduced—as Democrats have recently done—it has to be taken up in a matter of days.
But this would force Republicans to go on record as either supporting or opposing the unpopular economic ideology Trump and Musk are imposing. So Republicans just passed a measure saying that for the rest of this congressional session, “each day…shall not constitute a calendar day” for the purposes of terminating Trump’s emergency declaration.
The Republicans’ legislation that a day is not a day seems to prove the truth of Burke’s observation that by trying to force reality to fit their ideology, radical ideologues will end up imposing tyranny in the name of liberty."
Letter
Comments
Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs applied capriciously to friends and foes alike are absurd.
He is not capable of implementing tariffs responsibly.
Congress should repeal the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
but subserviant House Republicans will not allow this to occur.
SEC. 4. Each day for the remainder of the first session
of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for
purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50
U.S.C. 1622) with respect to a joint resolution terminating
a national emergency declared by the President on February
1, 2025.
https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres211/BILLS-119hres211eh.pdf
“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries”
Big fan of Monty Python here.