Summary
Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Don Bacon, are reconsidering Trump’s tariff authority, citing economic uncertainty and potential backlash over rising consumer prices.
Bacon called for restoring tariff power to Congress, admitting past mistakes in granting temporary presidential authority.
Rep. Ralph Norman acknowledged the potential pain of auto tariffs but remained hopeful of their effectiveness.
The Congressional Budget Office warned of short-term inflation and reduced economic efficiency.
There were many mistakes made along the way: making the office too powerful, eliminating all checks and balances, and making congress so contentious and useless that making the executive too powerful seemed necessary to accomplish anything.
However, ultimately handing the keys over to a fucking brain-dead, business-garbage pile in a suit at a time where so many powers have been concentrated in the executive because he “owns the libs” and makes the spiciest AI slop memes on truth social between bits of all-caps screed was the worst of those mistakes.