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- Republicans in Congress don’t want President Donald Trump to implement new tariffs on aluminum and steel.
- They can stop him from doing so, but they’re not.
- And they likely won’t do anything, not wanting to set up a fight with Trump.
While we’re all talking about “Trump’s” tariff plan, I wrote on Monday that tariffs are fundamentally up to Congress.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to levy tariffs. The president only has any power to impose tariffs because Congress wrote laws giving him that power, and they can write new laws to constrain the power.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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