In a rare defeat, three House Republicans bucked their leaders to block legislation that would have restricted Congress’ ability to strike down Trump’s tariffs.
With the threat of additional tariffs looming over foreign countries — and the 2026 midterms — House GOP leaders tried to adopt legislation Tuesday night that would prevent any lawmaker from forcing a vote on Donald Trump’s tariffs until August.
That effort failed, however, 214-217, after three Republicans joined all Democrats to defeat the legislation.
Tucked into a rule setting up floor consideration for a bill on U.S. energy security was language that would have prevented House lawmakers from challenging Trump’s tariffs until July 31. The language stipulates that certain days won’t “constitute a calendar day” for the purpose of terminating national emergencies — the authority Trump has used to impose the tariffs.
214 to 217 isn’t a revolt. It’s a clown show of how many ‘elected officials’ are chill to become Nazis and kill the other half and every person they represent in this country.
I hope they realize that the more more they hand over to Trump the less necessary their jobs become.
Eventually Trump will just dissolve Congress because what’s they point of their jobs anymore?
He wouldn’t be wrong honestly. They have failed to check his power which is their one fucking job.
The conservatives like to talk about meritocracy and performance metrics, but that apparently it is never applied to them.
Soon they’ll have all the power and authority of the DC representative
um like what. a year later. congress was made to be the most powerful branch of the us government and they keep abdicating power.
What is with these attempts to present trump as unpopular among american conservatives? He’s not. They support his fascist regime because they’re fascists. Even the ‘moderates’ are. Trump’s regime will need to be overcome, not by ballots or ‘rogue’ congresspeople/senators. YOU need to do your part and organize.
He is very unpopular amongst “traditional conservatives”. The problem is no matter how hard we look we can’t seem to find anything but fascist Maga fucknuggets now.
You should do all of this AND vote.
In the Primaries as well
In the primaries especially.
this guy is trying to discourage you from voting, why?
They’re not, they’re laying out the very real possibility that the elections won’t stop him and that genuine resistance will be needed, of which organising before that happens is paramount.
Why are you discouraging people from preparing for Trump to steal the the election, do you want Trump to succeed?
So you decided to discourage voting too.
Stop that.
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It’s about fucking time
Don’t fall for the headline bait. It was a 3 vote margin. Republicans are almost all willing to give up their power to Trump.
