In a cunning legislative maneuver linked to the effort to approve a financing bill and avoid a government closure, the Republicans of the House of Representatives successfully blocked the Democrats to force the votes and discuss the controversial tariffs of President Donald Trump.
It was a somewhat complicated movement. But it worked, and showed that the Republicans are trying to cover Trump and its implementation of radical tariffs in the main US business partners who have devastated the stock market and fueled diplomatic tensions.
If the Democrats had forced to vote and discuss tariffs, they could have forced Republicans to register the Trump Rate Agenda, perhaps dividing with the president’s actions.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, speaks with journalists outside the cameras of the House of Representatives after a series of votes in the Capitol, on March 11, 2025, in Washington, DC
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To see the Financing Bill of the Temporary Government of President Mike Johnson, which the Chamber approved Tuesday night, the Chamber first had to approve what is known as “a rule.” Buried within the text of that rule was a legislative language that prevents Democrats from forcing a potentially painful vote to end Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.
How could the Democrats force vote to end tariffs?
Trump imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China by declaring that illegal migration and fentanyl constituted a national emergency under the International Law of Emergency Economic Powers and the National Emergency Law.
But, here is the capture: under the NEA, the Congress has the authority to move quickly to finish that emergency declaration. Top House Democrats tried to do it last week.
But within that rule, which approved the lines of the party and cleared the way for a vote on the Stopgap financing bill of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives, it was a provision that prohibits legislators for the legislators forcing a vote to finish the border emergency of the president and the resulting tariffs up to at least in January 2026.
The section says: “Every day for the rest of the first session of the 119th Congress will not constitute a calendar day for the purposes of section 202 of the National Emergency Law with respect to a joint resolution that ends a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025.”
A view of the dome of the United States Capitol, March 12, 2025 in Washington.
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The Democrats are flying the movement.
“Do you guess what they got into this rule, hoping anyone noticed? Representative Jim McGovern, a classification member in the Chamber Rules Committee, said during the floor debate on Tuesday.
Congress could still approve a joint resolution to terminate the president’s national emergency. That would require the support of both the republican and archive republican legislators and the republican leadership of the House of Representatives, which is unlikely.
Democratic representative Don Beyer criticized the maneuver in “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis” on Tuesday.
Representative Don Beyer speaks at a press conference about the alleged attempts by the administrator of the Lee Zeldin Environmental Protection Agency to attack the danger findings that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health and well -being, in the Capitol, on February 27, 2025, in Washington, DC.
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When asked about the movement of the Republicans and if the Democrats have reduced it, Beyer said “not really,” calling him “tragic.”
“Once again, Trump has ignored the existing law and the Constitution with all the rates he has been announcing in recent weeks,” said Beyer. “On January 20, the strongest economy has had. And we quickly headed towards the recession at this time only because of the extraordinary uncertainty in commercial decisions and capital and hiring investment decisions.”