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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 pic
by 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 agoAdditionally, 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 agoI 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.