Congress can end Trump's phony trade emergency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : What's more significant is that U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted only 19.5 kilograms of fentanyl at the northern border in the past fiscal year, compared with nearly 9,600 kilos at the southern border.
49% : The muted public condemnation from corporate executives who fear Trump's wrath, and from congressional Republicans who previously championed free trade, has been disappointing.
46% : His event in the Rose Garden was like a declaration of war -- on allies, on globalization, and on Congress's constitutional power to set taxes and import duties.
45% : And as Trump said on the 2024 campaign trail that "tariff" was "the most beautiful word," traditionally pro-market Republicans did not even try to convince their constituents that he was wrong.
39% : Over the past few decades, both parties took free trade for granted.
34% : By imposing tariffs on Canada and the rest of the world, Trump is invoking his authority under a 1977 law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, previously used to sanction rogue states that abuse human rights.
30% : Others in the party capitulated to arm-twisting from Trump, who on social media accused Republican defectors of being unserious about fentanyl overdoses -- as if tariffs were paid by drug traffickers.
24% : To avoid alienating labor unions, President Joe Biden opted not to undo tariffs that Trump unilaterally imposed during his first term.
23% : Trump is now hoisting tariffs to levels not seen since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 drove the U.S. deeper into the Great Depression.

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