Washington – The fallout from the new aggressive prices of President Donald Trump prompted the Congress to action, an increasing number of Republicans joining the Democrats to express their interest in using their power to retain it.
After the GOP led by the GOP delivered a rare reprimand to Trump on Wednesday by voting to cancel its prices in Canada, the legislators of the two chambers weigh additional steps to brake it. Senators are considering other mechanisms to cancel the existing Trump prices while limiting its ability to impose new ones. And the Democrats of the Chamber explore ways to force a vote to revoke Canadian prices, emitting palpeurs to attract the support of the Republicans.
These efforts have a high bar to succeed, because any resolution to cancel Trump’s prices, or a new law affecting his powers, should go around a presidential veto. But the level of support for the congress could affect the president’s political calculation on the use of import taxes in the United States as a centerpiece of his program.
Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, an ally of Trump who is third online in the presidency, presented a bill with senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Thursday, who would reaffirm the authority of the congress and slam the restrictions on the power of the president to take prices.
The legislation, called the law on the 2025 commercial examination, would force the president to inform the congress of new prices within 48 hours of taxation, while providing his reasons and an analysis of the impacts on consumers and American companies. Then the congress would have 60 days to approve it. If not, the prices would expire after this period.
“For too long, the congress delegated its clear authority to regulate interstate trade and foreign to the executive branch,” Grassley said in a statement. “Based on my previous efforts as chairman of the finance committee, I join Senator Cantwell to present the Bipartisan Trade Examination Act in 2025 to reaffirm the constitutional role of the Congress and ensure that Congress has a voice in commercial policy.”
Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., praised Grassley for the bill because “he believes that we are a co-equal branch”. He said he would vote for this, although he was not clear if the bill would be brought to the Senate.
“I like the Congress Review. … Commerce, it’s a good example,” said Tillis. “I will support Grassley if it gets a vote.”
Cantwell-Grassley’s bill once came after the Senate voted 51-48 to revoke Trump prices on Canadian products. Susan Collins of Maine joined the 47 Democrats to pass it. Lisa Murkowski from Alaska; And Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA., The author of the resolution, said that he was trying to rely on this success with more resolutions to block Trump’s prices, while examining his options in terms of what can move the fastest.
He said that “much more” than four Republicans were interested in its resolution than to vote ultimately for this, predicting that more will come on board “while economic reality settles”.
“There will be massive economic sorrow in this country” if the congress does not defeat the prices, warned Kaine. “Donald Trump started in power with the strongest economy in the world. … He has, in two months, the chainsaw and the prices made one with red lights and question points.
For the moment, partisanry has made some Republicans to be wary of Democrats in a decision that their base could perceive as defying Trump.
“You must do it in a neutral environment, where you have republicans and democrats who are not forced to choose against the president of their own party in office when there is a price in question,” said Senator Mike Rounds, Rs.d., who voted against the Kaine measure and wondered if the environment was just for the Grassley bill.
On the other side of the Capitol, democrats in the senior chamber said they were looking to adopt a resolution interrupting Canadian prices, similar to what the Senate voted this week. Since President Mike Johnson, R-La., Has reluctant to show any light of day with Trump, the Democrats explore a final around the leaders of the GOP in the Chamber.
The representative Gregory Meeks, Dn.y., explores the deposit of what is called a exit petition, a legislative tool which would allow supporters to bypass the leaders of the GOP and to force a vote on the legislation if they can obtain 218 signatures.
“New York Greg Meeks, as head of our Foreign Affairs Committee, is considering a resolution or an exit petition, and I am one of those who envisage the discharge petition,” said representative Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, in an interview. “I would vote for its resolution so that we can reproduce what the Senate did.”
An exit petition cannot be used on the measurement of the Senate, so the Chamber should write its own bill – perhaps identical.
Representative Josh Gottheimer, DN.J., former co -president of the Bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus who presents himself for the Governor and has relations with many Republicans, confirmed that he collaborated with Meeks on the exit effort.
“People are struggling with high costs right now and we have to do our best to make their lives more affordable,” said Gottheimer during a telephone interview on Thursday. “Strike them with prices on their cheese, milk, repair of their homes and cars add an insult to the injury – in particular with one of our largest business partners.”
And some Republicans who experience stomach burns on Trump’s prices point out that they could cross the aisle and sign the Democrats’ discharge petition. With the thin majority of the GOP 220-213, the supporters would need at least five Republicans to break with Trump and sign the discharge petition.
“I would probably vote yes,” said the moderate representative, Don Bacon, R-Neb., Who added that the Democrats had “contacted” the question. “Denchases are the last resort. I prefer to debate it in our conference and our room. ”
“At the end of the line,” continued Bacon, “I think the congress should resume its tariff authorities and I think that the prices in Canada are inappropriate. They are houses ”by the United States-Mexico-Cancoada trade agreement signed by Trump.
