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duxup

10 months ago

It's like watching a toddler throw a fit. No idea how to self control, only knows how to scream and act out louder, take it out on everyone else.

tempera

10 months ago

Why are not the Democrats protesting with all their might against this racial discrimation with tarrifs? The Chinese deserve better from us.

java-man

10 months ago

Can Congress, in principle, stop this idiocy?

A_D_E_P_T

10 months ago

In principle, sure.

Noah Smith wrote about this earlier today:

> "The power to enact tariffs is Constitutionally reserved for Congress, and the only reason Trump is able to unilaterally create these tariffs is that Congress granted the President this ability with a series of laws. At any moment, Congress could simply pass a new law and make these tariffs vanish."

> https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/hey-democrats-stop-fiddling-wh...

But that's "in principle." Will they? Almost certainly not. (Though it's unclear why this is the case.)

quadragenarian

10 months ago

As mentioned in the article you linked, the president has a veto over any law to restrict his own tariff powers; the only way to override his or her veto is to pass the law with 2/3rds majority in BOTH chambers, the House and Senate.

That does mean a fair number of Republican Congresspeople would have to join Democrats. This level of cooperation seems to be in itself anathema to Republicans, notwithstanding the actual principle of the bill itself.

duxup

10 months ago

Yes, congress has the power to override the executive branch on tariffs.

Historically congress has given the executive branch added decision making over tariffs, but congress can revoke those and/or curtail tariffs if they wish.

But congress is GOP controlled and they're barely a political party as far as independent thinking goes and more so a Trump fan club in all but name.

rasz

10 months ago

This congress? no.

user

10 months ago

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lossolo

10 months ago

Does anyone know how shadowbanning of submissions works? I submitted a direct source for this 30 minutes ago, and it's not showing up for others (both logged in and logged out) in the new section.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612672