As Article III judges launch a coup d’état of the administration, Republicans are concerned that no one controls Trump’s tariffs.
Four Republicans broke with President Trump on tariffs on Canada, and now they are looking for ways to rein him in.
According to the anti-GOP NBC “News,” Democrats in the House are exploring ways to force a vote to revoke Canadian tariffs, putting out feelers to attract support from Republicans. They need more than four votes to circumvent the presidential veto.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a fake Trump ally third in line to the presidency, introduced a bill with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., on Thursday that would reassert Congress’s authority and restrict the president’s power to levy tariffs.
The legislation, called the Trade Review Act of 2025, would require the president to notify Congress of new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition while providing his reasons and an analysis of the impacts on American consumers and businesses. Then Congress would have 60 days to approve it. If it does not, the tariffs would expire after that period.
Sen. Thom Tillis is also on board.
The Cantwell-Grassley bill came one day after the Senate voted 51-48 to revoke Trump’s tariffs on Canadian products. Joining all 47 Democrats to pass it were GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Sen. Tim Kaine claims that President Trump inherited the strongest economy in the world. After four years of Biden, his $7 trillion of debt, his bills that go on for years, high inflation, and ever-growing taxation were destroying the economy. It is simply not true.
“There is going to be massive economic heartbreak in this country” if Congress fails to undo to the tariffs, Kaine warned. “Donald Trump started in office with the strongest economy in the world. He has, in two months, with the chainsaw and the tariffs, turned it into one with flashing red lights and question marks. We’ve got to use the tools at our disposal to get him to do a U-turn.”
Trump singled out the four Senate Republicans by name on Truth Social Wednesday and urged them to reject the Canada resolution. He has argued that those specific tariffs are needed because Canada is not doing enough to halt fentanyl and other illegal drugs from coming across the northern border.
“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change,” Trump wrote.
“The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, in that it is not going anywhere because the House will never approve it, and I, as your President, will never sign it,” he continued.
That last statement is true. Democrats admitted it. They are whittling away the slim majorities. They have one in the House, Don Bacon of Nebraska.
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Chuck Grassley, Rand Paul, McConnell, Murkowski and Collins should all be recalled from Congress. What RINO a-holes they are.
We need to recall Chuck Grassley, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski and the rest of the RINO rats opposing President Trump’s agenda.
I doubt that laws are retroactive.
So, this is the first offensive by the RINOs against Trump in this term. They will, of course, use the “we are saving th economy from collapse” excuse. That excuse works in concert with the MSM claim that tariffs are taking us down.
Trump outflanked them, and, he has lots of public support on it.
Sounds like they are all on the take. Why else would members of congress be against fair trade? I say open the books. If they are getting kickbacks from the old unfair trade arrangements they gotta be the dumbest crooks ever by publicly opposing fair trade. They just put themselves in the spot light, just not they way they intended. Sounds like probable cause to me Blondie.
They should call it the “support for tariffs against America” bill.
So, the old time Republican losers are back at their old games. This all began in the 70’s and this party hasn’t changed their stripes since then. When asked in the past about tariffs they balked and screamed “inflation” “Inflation”.
When people complained about all the job losses in, not only autos, but in textiles, appliances and many others, which were in the poorest areas of the country. Some of those areas have never recovered since that time. What the country did was sell out the country for some cheap labor, oftentimes slave labor.
providing his reasons and an analysis of the impacts on American consumers and businesses.
This is simply code to maintain the status quo and to hell with the general public. When I worked in the 70’s a person could quit one job and in a matter of days find another, even better. Within a short period of time that all changed. No longer could you quickly find another job. In fact, many were working jobs they utterly hated but dared not leave because of few, if any, prospects.
So what is it with these damn Feckless Republicans, especially Grassley, who cannot even seem to speak without a script, which was probably written by staff. Right now they are in a position to really capture the working class. We have to wonder if they just aren’t so smug and not wanting those people in the party.
This “Whig” party better realize just because Democrats are at an all time low doesn’t mean that can’t change dramatically before an election. You anger enough of the newly Republican voters and you will rue the day when they turn on you. They didn’t trust you to begin with. The Congress and President are in a majority only because of Trump. It’s time the Political establishment (GOPe) realize and understand they damn well better start adopting positions aligned with Trump or suffer the fate of the Whigs.