In Reply to: Why aren't Democrats screaming this from rooftops? posted by blindness on April 04, 2025 at 11:19:15
I don't study these events in great detail, but I understand things now stand as follows:
- Trump has declared an economic emergency, and thus assumed the power to set tariffs without congressional approval.
- The Senate decided to stop him, by voting on a resolution that declared that there was no economic emergency. All Democratic senators voted for it, and about four or five Republicans did, too. So, it passed.
- The House then had to vote on a similar resolution. A resolution was offered up for a vote, and the House rules required that the vote occur within a certain number of days (I don't know the exact number of days).
- Here's where things become unbelievably F'd up: Speaker Mike Johnson ruled that the entire term of the House was to be considered as a single day. That's right - one day. In other words, the clock would run indefinitely and it would still be the same day. That means the House would never vote on the resolution.
Yes, the Republicans are working very hard to make sure that Donald Trump gets what he wants - democracy be damned, the rule of law be damned, and simple common sense be damned.