🚨BREAKING: Senate Deadlocks 49-49, Fails to Advance Measure to Block Trump’s Tariffs.

[TheGreatSatan]

Rand Paul is a disgrace.

Rand Paul is a traitor to America.

Rand Paul votes with the demon scum working to collapse America.

Rand Paul = traitor

 

[elektra]

I would never cite Obumbler as an authority on what our Constitution says or means.

Iran-Obama was a treaty, essentially that ignored congress's authority.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Good.

Trump would veto it anyway.

Only POTUS can negotiate trade deals, and part of that process needs to have teeth in it, includes the ability to impose or lessen/remove tariffs.

Weakest. Congress. Evar.

 

[scruffy]

No recession during Biden. This is all you.

Just massive inflation.

 

[scruffy]

Weakest. Congress. Evar.

Nah, that's been going on for 40 years.

Most of your lifetime.

 

[Care4all]

Just massive inflation.

Yeah, inflation was 9% and Biden brought it down to 2.5%.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Yeah, inflation was 9% and Biden brought it down to 2.5%.

LOL who raised it so high?

 

[Care4all]

LOL who raised it so high?

Covid supply chain interruption caused inflation world wide, other countries even higher inflation than the U.S. experienced.

That's a fact.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Covid supply chain interruption caused inflation world wide, other countries even higher inflation than the U.S. experienced.

That's a fact.

sure it is who was President again?

 

[Care4all]

sure it is who was President again?

Biden! And, the inflation rate dropped, drastically under Biden....mostly though, because the supply chain problems were fixed, which increased supply vs. the demand, which reduces prices at the register that we pay.

 

[Blaster]

Biden! And, the inflation rate dropped, drastically under Biden....mostly though, because the supply chain problems were fixed, which increased supply vs. the demand, which reduces prices at the register that we pay.

Why do you keep spreading lies? Just admit that Biden failed.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Good.
Trump would veto it anyway.
Only POTUS can negotiate trade deals, and part of that process needs to have teeth in it, includes the ability to impose or lessen/remove tariffs.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to lay tariffs:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Congress has since given the President power to decide on the rate for several of these tariffs:

How Congress delegates its tariff powers to the president | Constitution Center

President Donald Trump is expected to announce wide-sweeping tariffs on Wednesday, in a move with potentially broad consequences. So how does the president have the ability to levy tariffs under the Constitution?

constitutioncenter.org

Congress can try to take that power back, but would need to pass a law to modify existing law - likely, with an override.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Only the congress can set up taxes, tariffs/duties, excise according to the constitution....
Trump is using some PHONEY EMERGENCY power to do this....

You are wrong.
Written into several of the laws establishing several tariffs is the Presidential power to adjust the rate of said tariffs, as he sees necessary.

How Congress delegates its tariff powers to the president | Constitution Center

President Donald Trump is expected to announce wide-sweeping tariffs on Wednesday, in a move with potentially broad consequences. So how does the president have the ability to levy tariffs under the Constitution?

constitutioncenter.org

 

[M14 Shooter]

Not a single trade deal negotiated by a President is valid without the Senate voting for it, under our Constitution.

This is only the case if said 'deal' is written into a treaty.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Yeah, inflation was 9% and Biden brought it down to 2.5%.

Why did he raise it to 9%?

 

[M14 Shooter]

The recession is officially theirs.

Ask yourself: WHY did the GDP fall?
-Less government spending.
-Fewer imports
-Consumer spending? Up.
-Investment? Up.
-Exports? Up.

Working as intended.

Gross Domestic Product, 1st Quarter 2025 (Advance Estimate) | U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first quarter of 2025 (January, February, and March), according to the advance estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2024, real GDP increased 2.4 percent.

www.bea.gov

 

[Blaster]

The economy is strong.

 

[Care4all]

Why do you keep spreading lies? Just admit that Biden failed.

Because it is not a lie....do some research on it.

 

[Blaster]

Because it is not a lie....do some research on it.

Democrats favorability rating is declining rapidly. Do your research.

 

[Care4all]

Why did he raise it to 9%?

Biden didn't raise it, inflation rose across the entire world due to supply side issues created during the covid pandemic.

If it were Biden's doing, inflation would have only occurred in the United States, but it was a worldwide issue and rise.