Too little, too late. Presidents currently only have authority to impose tariffs when needed for national security or in retaliation to new tariffs imposed upon us. trump abused that authority by simply proclaiming that Canada, Mexico, China and any other country were threats to our national security. The national security clause implies some new and imminent threat due to something new that a trading partner has recently done which threatens our security. None of the new tariffs imposed as part of trump’s trade-wars met these criteria, None! No one in Congress did their jobs and challenged trump’s re-interpretation of what ‘national security threat’ required initiation of an economically damaging trade war. No-one! Congress, especially the Senate and Moscow Mitch of the Red party, has continued to cede its authority to trump, because he has continued to re-interpret the Constitution and existing laws to Congressional benefactor’s advantage, There are Congressional Constitutional remedies for a president abusing the powers implicit to hIs office- but hyper-partisan divides, political maneuvering, and plain old greed have stalled these processes. The proposed legislation is a band-aid to cover up the wounds caused by Congress’s inability to do it’s job. The only thing I would endorse, would be to clearly define what constitutes a ‘national security threat’ in context of trade management and hold the executive branch to show that new/revised tariffs are justified by that definition. Of course, if we had better selection criteria to keep demonstrably dishonorable, dishonest, unethical candidates from ever getting into our National Offices, none of this crap would be needed at all.

Republicans whingeing about losing money due to their own monster’s collateral damage. Suck it up, pancakes. You own this. It’s all yours. Maybe if it hurts you will learn the consequences to choosing power and party over the American People and the good of the nation.

Although I agree that Congress needs to be involved in all decisions affecting the United States, and believe that the President should be a mere figurehead and spokesperson for the Country, there is no bi-partisan support, signifying that there may also be some more corruption at play here, with this legislation. Republicans have given the Congressional power away to the Executive Branch and now it is backfiring when their own trade policies and actions are harming the Country. This legislation may actually just be a ploy to make it appear to their uneducated constituents, That Republicans actually care that they fucked up this Country and actually want to help the Citizens.