Senators propose Congress take over tariff authority in bipartisan bill

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https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/senators-propose-congress-take-over-tariff-authority-in-bipartisan-bill-236398661575

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The comments just blew my mind holyyyy:

Only Congress has authority to set our tariff policy, Trump has somehow enacted emergency powers to enable himself to set these polices. This is not right.

[–]SmartGirl62

409 points 9 hours ago

The house could have ended this but Mike Johnson put in procedural text specifically targeting this emergency tariff authority preventing them from voting on ending his emergency authority. Wouldn’t want to upset daddy Trump. nytimes

[–]pimparo0

Florida 163 points 8 hours ago

It's wilder than that, they changed the meaning of calendar day for this instance specifically.

[–]rlbond86

I voted [score hidden] 7 hours ago

The national emergency law lays out a fast-track process for Congress to consider a resolution ending a presidential emergency, requiring committee consideration within 15 calendar days after one is introduced and a floor vote within three days after that. But the language House Republicans inserted in their measure on Tuesday declared that, “Each day for the remainder of the 119th

Congress shall not constitute a calendar day” for the purposes of the emergency that Mr. Trump declared on Feb. 1.

Not sure how this would be considered legal, you can't just define a word to be something else to change a law