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The bigger problem would be their own party members.

• eru 1y ago
  In what sense?
  • duxup 1y ago
    The GOP in congress has struggled, even last election cycle to gather enough votes to take action. They ran through several rounds where they couldn't even pick a house majority leader among their own party. The tariffs would be very difficult considering each of their local concerns.
    • lesuorac 1y ago
      Additionally, in the first Trump presidency congress temporarily removed the debt limit. I don't think there are even votes to do that now so compromising on how to fund the government is going to take a lot of effort (that can't be spent on tariff rates).
      • eru 1y ago
        I wish they would replace the debt limit with something more sensibly designed like the German (or Swiss) debt brake ('Schuldenbremse'). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_balanced_budget_amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_balanced_budget_amendme... The American debt limit regularly shuts down the government, but debt still keeps piling up. The German debt brake doesn't seem to shut down the government, but actually lead to a substantial drop in the debt-to-gdp ratio.