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Evidently Congress gave the presidency emergency powers to do what he wants with tariffs, all he has to do is declare an emergency. Just one more example of how
by amanaplanacanal 2y ago
Evidently Congress gave the presidency emergency powers to do what he wants with tariffs, all he has to do is declare an emergency. Just one more example of how Congress is completely broken.
- me2too 2y agoHe literally created the emergency himself. What the hell. I can't understand how one of the most powerful countries in the world doesn't have a system in place to prevent the president to act like a dictator
- consp 2y ago> He literally created the emergency himself. Classic right wing playbook. Here they defunded immigration services and then called for a crisis because there was not enough space to put all asylum seekers and there was too great a backlog to get it all processed in time.
- vel0city 2y agoThat power is only supposed to last for some number of days before review by Congress. But Congress decided a day isn't a day anymore, at least for the rest of the year.
- moogly 2y agoDid he even declare an emergency for the latest near world-wide tariffs? Are they even pretending anymore? If so I missed it.
- ativzzz 2y agoThe US currently has 49 ongoing national emergencies, that are renewed every year by the president The last 8 or so were created by Trump. Like you said, he's just doing what is already allowed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i...