What's the point of electing a Congress if the President can do whatever he wants? If SCOTUS rules against the President on this case, that will be reason.
If Congress can delegate total power to the President, the checks and balances built into the Constitution are destroyed because legislation will no longer have to go through Congress. The scope of what Trump claims he can do with tariffs amounts to a complete delegation of that power.
If Trump wants to fundamentally change the tariff posture of the country, he should go to Congress and request the implementation of those tariffs via legislation. And if Congress won't do that, well, that's the way our system works.
“If Trump wants to fundamentally change the tariff posture of the country, he should go to Congress and request the implementation of those tariffs via legislation.”
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Oh yeah, go to the congress that can’t even pass a budget. Tariffs are so complex that there’s zero chance of congress coming up with any kind of workable tariff system for one country, much less the entire world. Get real.
The Tariff Act of 1974 gives POTUS the power. But you knew that.