Posted on 03/31/2025 8:44:02 AM PDT by RandFan
Senators are expected to take a vote this week designed to stop President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports from Canada, before the focus turns to Republicans’ effort to advance Trump’s broader policy agenda.
And the House will keep itself occupied with several GOP legislative priorities while waiting to see if the Senate moves forward with a compromise budget resolution this week.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is once again using expedited procedures to force a vote on whether or not to terminate a national emergency declaration. This time, it is the declared emergency that Trump used to put 25 percent tariffs on many Canadian imports, with some exceptions.
“President Trump’s taxes on Canadian goods have sent our economy into chaos, and Americans aren’t buying what he’s selling,” Kaine said in a statement last week. “They know they will pay the price with higher costs for everyday items, and their confidence in the economy is the lowest it has been in recent years.”
But the president appears to be full speed ahead with tariffs affecting Canada and a slew of other countries.
“We have our own energy. We don’t need energy from Canada. We don’t need lumber from Canada. We don’t need anything from Canada,” Trump said Sunday night on Air Force One. “We don’t need cars from Canada, as an example.”
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wow....a Senate vote....Biden did whatever he wanted to without opposition.
Apparently 95% of the Senate are traitors too. I have a solution for all of this.
You never want a Repub in a foxhole with you in a war. They will shoot you in the back every time.
The Senate lacks a veto-proof majority and it probably cannot get through the House.
It is interesting that House Republicans curtailed Congress’s ability to challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs by embedding a procedural rule change into a stopgap government funding bill passed on March 11, 2025. This is driven by arcane House rules and definitions. You've got to hand it to the Reps to come up with this clever scheme. Gory details below:
The Continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded included a provision that altered how the House counts calendar days under the National Emergencies Act (NEA) for the remainder of 2025. The language stated that “each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day” for purposes of the NEA with respect to a national emergency declared by Trump on February 1, 2025.OK, is it now clear how the House Republicans outfoxed the Democrats? I cannot imagine working in that bureaucratic morass where you have to dream up definitions of "days" to defeat the opposition. I thought the bureaucracy in the companies I worked at was bad.The NEA allows Congress to terminate a presidential emergency—like the one Trump used to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China—through a joint resolution. Normally, any member of Congress can force a vote on such a resolution within 15 calendar days of its introduction, followed by a floor vote within three days after committee consideration. Democrats, led by Representative Suzan DelBene, had planned to use this mechanism to challenge Trump’s tariffs later in March. However, by redefining “calendar days” to effectively freeze the 15-day clock for the rest of the year, the rule change blocked this fast-track process.
The CR passed 216-214 along party lines and ensured that no such challenge could be mounted in 2025 without broader legislative action requiring Republican leadership support—unlikely given their control of both chambers.
This move didn’t eliminate Congress’s theoretical power to oppose tariffs entirely; a joint resolution could still pass with majority support in both the House and Senate, followed by Trump’s signature or a veto override. But by suspending the NEA’s expedited timeline, House Republicans made it politically and procedurally harder, shielding their members from having to take a public stance on Trump’s tariffs.
Critics, including Democrats, called it a surrender of Congress’s constitutional trade authority, while House Speaker Mike Johnson defended it as maintaining an “appropriate balance of powers” with the executive branch. The change was a strategic sidestep, not a permanent repeal, but it effectively delayed any immediate congressional pushback against the tariffs for the year.
But, hey! Whatever works and whatever it takes, right?
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our republic or to Deep State.
The pols who side with those screwing our republic are Deep State.
BTW, anyone who thinks NYS’s dairy farmers benefit from Canada’s three digit tariffs on our dairy needs to talk to some od them.
Those still in business.
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/small-farms-decline-new-york-especially-dairy-18665917.php
We’ve lost 6,000 of them since 1997.
He needs to stick to medicine and leave economics to Trump.
These losers are just hedging. So they can say “see I voted against them” in case it goes pear shaped.
None of these idiots has a clue as to how even a mom and pop store works, let alone our economy.
They still don’t know what a tariff or VAT is.
They would rather tax our corporations rather than foreign companies.
Canada simply needs to remove all their tariffs on our products going to Canada. This is a Canada problem to solve not ours.
They would rather tax US, the citizenry.
We are cash cows to Deep State.
Nothing more.
Canada made it ours.
Trump is addressing that.
That’s why Deep State opposes his tariffs.
“These losers are just hedging. So they can say “see I voted against them” in case it goes pear shaped.”
Exactly right.
After the election, GOP has the majority and Thune is leader. Would he advance a bill that stabs Trump in the back? If so, how is he better than McConnell?
I nominate this as the most thoughtful well researched post of the day.
Us constituents are tired of business as usual. Trump has flipped the script on that. I wonder what the motivation is to not give him a chance, just to see if his plans work out. Perhaps it’s just not wanting him to succeed? Let’s say you don’t like him and you think he’ll fail. Well...let him fail. You win. Could it be that they think he’ll succeed and that’s what they don’t want to happen? And, who, exactly, will the loser be? OH, us the constituents.
Any Republican that votes fir this should be primaried.
Maybe some Democrat Union guys could visit Timmy.
They seem to be all for the tariffs.
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