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And congress decided that the president can raise tariffs himself. Congress has given away a lot of power, of the years. Ironically I think this is one instan
by Auracle 1y ago
And congress decided that the president can raise tariffs himself. Congress has given away a lot of power, of the years.
Ironically I think this is one instance that sort of thing made sense, but they should have done their usual and made some sort of government agency to oversee it themselves. Neither congress nor the president are good managers of tariffs as they're unpopular in the short term, as we've seen, and need a long term outlook.
- vkou 1y agoIt's fascinating that just last year, SCOTUS has determined that Congress couldn't delegate its powers to rulemaking agencies that Congress explicitly creates, charters, and funds. Yet, somehow, this implicit 'delegation' (where Congress is very actively doing nothing) is somehow kosher. As long as they won't impeach the leader of their party, anything goes! The man could drop a nuclear bomb on Ohio, and as long as he had 34 surviving votes in the Senate, he'd be fine. If this kind of congressional silence is endorsement, why the hell did SCOTUS get involved to start legislating regulations from the bench in the first place?
- vel0city 1y agoIt's not implicit, they're directly doing it. They made a law giving the executive this exact power. They then passed a law redefining the length of a day so they would prevent the countdown in that law from them actually reviewing these. That's right, the Republicans decided the rest of 2025 is just one long legal day.
- vkou 1y agoA day is a year, and we're now in a permanent state of emergency, yet, apparently, Congress isn't allowed to delegate the job of policing pollutants to the EPA, and the judiciary must come in and save us from it.