GOP To Change House Rules To Prevent Themselves From Blocking Trump's Tariffs

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Source: Huff Post

Apr 9, 2025, 02:46 PM EDT


WASHINGTON – Republicans are changing the rules of the House on Wednesday to prevent Democrats from forcing a vote on stopping President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) slipped language into a procedural measure that would bar action on legislation aimed at terminating the national emergency that Trump declared to impose his worldwide tariffs. The move is a remarkable show of fealty to Trump, whose tariffs have rattled global stock markets and caused profound anxiety even among Republicans, who have traditionally favored free trade policies rather than protectionism. It’s also an embarrassing display of Republicans weakening their own roles as legislators.

“I’ve made it very clear, I think the president has executive authority,” Johnson told the Wall Street Journal in response to a question about the rules change. “It’s an appropriate level of authority to deal with the unfair trade practices — that’s part of the role of the president is to negotiate with other countries,” he said. “Right now, as recently as last night, he told me I think they’re almost 70 countries that are at some stage of negotiation of more fair trade agreements with the United States.”

Trump himself seemed to be having second thoughts about destroying the global economy: he abruptly announced Wednesday that he’s scaling back tariffs on all countries, except for China. But Republicans are still moving forward with preventing themselves from intervening in his plans, as destructive as they may be. Ahead of the procedural vote, Democrats ripped their GOP colleagues for being too scared to take on the president’s recklessness.

“A vote for this rule is a vote for Trump’s tariffs,” said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.). “Anyone who claims to want to retake congressional authority over trade and tariffs must vote against this rule.” “Republicans are hiding from taking a vote that would put them on the record on tariffs,” Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) said on social media. “They should be standing up for you, not rolling over for Trump.”

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1. Self flagellation

Then en masse they’ll continue to avoid town hall meetings because for some reason people who voted for them won’t like it. Then they’ll cash their next government check. Then they’ll request a meeting with trump to ask him if he will publicly humiliate them on a weekly basis. Then they will step to a microphone and blame democrats for whatever. Then they’ll look at the hometown paper and see they are being primaried from the left and the right. Then they’ll go to Cancun.

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2. Of course! Their advance knowledge gave them a great return for what they bought yesterday!

They all knew trump was going to do this. Their massive purchasing of stocks yesterday provided upside support causing the averages to go up a little yesterday. Now, they've all made millions of dollars thanks to their king!

[Lovie777]

3. C H I C K E N.....

[Karasu]

4. How many fucking times have they done this shit since he took office? I've lost fucking count. I swear this is at least

the third time they've pulled some last-minute rule change in order to avoid voting on something and therefore going on record.

If we had a media worth anything in the modern world, they'd be on this shit like white on rice. Hell, the Dems should be talking about this nonstop through the midterms.

The GOP is a farce. They are spineless cowards without principles, and outside of enabling fascism, their ideology is one of pure optics and self-preservation. That's it. They stand for nothing, and the party no longer has any reason to exist other than to allow its leaders to break the law.

[Martin68]

5. Bizarre. Or, more likely, just pain traitorous.Emasculating Congress to support their authoritarian

leader and give him total power. How do these people look at themselves in the mirror or sleep at night?