House Republicans Just Voted To Give Even More Tariff Power Away to Trump
House Republicans passed a resolution that prevents Congress from ending the national emergency Trump is using to impose tariffs until March 31.
House Republicans passed a resolution that prevents Congress from ending the national emergency Trump is using to impose tariffs until March 31.
The complaint suggests the Times showed "actual malice" because its reporters hated him. That's not how that works.
It’s mainly praise for Trump: “President Trump secured the greatest personal and political achievement in American history.”
Whether he is waging the drug war, imposing tariffs, deporting alleged gang members, or fighting crime, the president thinks he can do "anything I want to do."
Rand Paul, who called for "a crackdown on people" who celebrated the assassination, was less careful in distinguishing between private and government action.
Trump’s emergency order in the nation’s capital expired last week, but he has already rolled out a plan to crack down on crime in Memphis.
The president's new approach to drug law enforcement represents a stark departure from military norms and criminal justice principles.
Freedom of speech cannot reliably protect conservatives unless it also protects people they despise.
Washington’s proposal to link Israeli withdrawals with Hezbollah’s surrender ignores decades of political entrenchment and risks fueling wider conflict.
Journalist Michael Tracey discusses problems with what he call the "Epstein mythology" on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
While mail-in voting provides obvious logistical challenges, every serious analysis of mail-in voting results has found it to be secure.
He’s the stablecoin president, seeking to expand the monetary power and borrowing capacity of the U.S. government.
De-escalation is that much harder, yet even more necessary, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's brutal assassination.
Equating drug trafficking with armed aggression, the president asserts the authority to kill anyone he perceives as a threat to "our most vital national interests."
The justice’s stance on immigration enforcement is undermined by the facts of the case before him.
With Congress essentially AWOL, the courts offer the only real check on presidential power.
A billion-dollar rebrand won’t change the fact that defense hasn’t meant defense in decades.
Trump's mass deportation policies are undermining his manufacturing agenda.
The president claims The Wall Street Journal inflicted "billions of dollars" in reputational damage by confirming a well-established relationship.
Shows of force and mass deportations play well to the base, but they’re falling flat with the public.
Nixon's director of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to shrink government, mostly failed, and was gone in less than a year. Sound familiar?
He was right the first time.
From Apocalypse Now memes to a re-named War Department, the second Trump administration is in love with authoritarian aesthetics.
The plan is illegal for multiple reasons, is likely to lead to poor decisions, and could undermine military readiness.
It's a new low in US refugee/asylum policy; simultaneouly unjust and counterproductive.
There is no hard evidence of Gmail discriminating against Republican campaign emails, but that’s no matter to the FTC Chairman.
The U.S. is risking its liberty and its prosperity with such high tariffs.
Killing suspected drug traffickers is both unjust and illegal. And it could be the start of an effort to turn the already awful War on Drugs into something more like a real war, thereby making it even worse.
Some policymakers now say the federal government's stake in Intel should be a "down payment" on a U.S. sovereign wealth fund. The idea is terrible.
The logic of the war on terror means infinitely expandable government power.
Manufacturing has been in decline for six months, nearly the exact amount of time since Trump's new trade wars began.
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The Justice Department has proposed a pathway to restore gun rights for millions of Americans.
The 2-1 ruling is in line with most previous court decisions on Trump's invocation of the AEA. Judge Oldham wrote an extremely long, but significantly flawed, dissent.
The attack follows the largest U.S. military buildup in Latin America since 1989, as Washington escalates its campaign against cartels tied to Nicolás Maduro’s regime.
The appeals court blocked the removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members under that law "because we find no invasion or predatory incursion."
Plus: Bombing "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean, American manufacturing shrinks for the sixth consecutive month, Massie wants the Epstein files, and more...
The administration attributed the $8 trillion figure both to new investment and to tariff revenue. So which is it? Neither.
Donald Trump's claim that the appeals court ruled against him for partisan or ideological reasons is hard to take seriously.
The administration says the country faces complete destruction if it's forced to pay back money it hasn't yet received.
"The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity," the Supreme Court wrote in a ruling this year.
Seven judges agreed that the president's assertion of unlimited authority to tax imports is illegal and unconstitutional.
In a 7-4 ruling, the en banc court upheld trial court ruling against all the challenged tariffs. The scope of the injunction against them remains to be determined.
Trump went "beyond the authority delegated to the President," the court ruled, but it vacated an injunction that could have provided immediate tariff relief to American businesses.
I got a pair of shoes delivered from Asia for a reasonable price. Trump just ended the exemption that makes that transaction possible.
RFK Jr. has had a crazy week. It will not be his last, alas.
Trump has promised to go after illegal immigrants "committing vile and heinous acts against innocent Americans." His record consistently says otherwise.
Newsom hired a brass-knuckled social-media team to fight fire with fire, but the result is even more childish nonsense in politics.