Emergency? What emergency?
Trump and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
Anyone with an ounce of commons sense knows Trump is fabricating emergencies for his sweeping tariffs.
Biden tried similar strategies to cancel student debt.
Please recall the Supreme Court ruled Biden “lacked the authority under the HEROES to unilaterally cancel debt and that such sweeping policy changes needed explicit Congressional approval.”
Biden tried a second time and failed again. Let’s now turn back to Trump.
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Major Legal Question
Please consider Trump’s Tariffs Are a Major Legal Question by Paul Sracic in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
President Trump relied on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose last week’s reciprocal tariffs, some of which are as high as 49%. This expansion of executive authority clearly oversteps the boundaries set by the Supreme Court’s major questions doctrine. Prominent in recent judicial rulings, the doctrine holds that federal agencies—and the executive branch—can’t make decisions of vast economic and political significance without clear congressional authorization.
IEEPA, enacted in 1977, was intended to rein in what Congress considered overuse of the Trading with the Enemies Act. Under IEEPA, the president retained broad authority to regulate international economic transactions during a declared national emergency. The law’s purpose was to address genuine crises—like foreign aggression or economic sabotage—not to serve as a catch-all to implement domestic policy preferences. Mr. Trump’s reciprocal tariffs stretch IEEPA beyond its intended scope, sidestepping Congress’s constitutional authority over trade and taxation. This undermines the separation of powers and sets a dangerous precedent for unchecked executive overreach—precisely the problem the major questions doctrine seeks to remedy.
Since 2022 the Supreme Court has been clear: When an agency (or the executive) claims authority to resolve a “major question”—a policy issue with “vast economic and political significance”—it must point to clear congressional intent. Tariffs—which reshape global trade, potentially cost American consumers billions, and disrupt entire industries—certainly qualify as major questions.
Mr. Trump’s tariffs aren’t regulatory tweaks; they are transformative economic policies with far-reaching consequences. IEEPA’s text offers no clear mandate for such sweeping actions. It authorizes the president to “deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat” to national security, economy or foreign policy, but its focus is on specific transactions—like freezing assets or blocking trade with hostile entities—not rewriting trade policy writ large. Yet Mr. Trump’s tariffs ostensibly address a “threat” that includes allies and adversaries alike. In introducing the tariffs Mr. Trump acknowledged as much, arguing that “in many cases the friend is worse than the foe.”
By employing this statute, Mr. Trump claimed a unilateral power to tax and regulate commerce—powers the Constitution vests in Congress under Article I, Section 8. The Supreme Court has signaled skepticism toward such executive improvisation. In West Virginia v. EPA (2022) the Court struck down the Obama Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, ruling that the agency couldn’t overhaul the energy sector without explicit congressional approval.
The parallels to Mr. Trump’s tariffs are striking: Both incidents involve an executive entity leveraging vague statutory language to enact policies of “vast economic and political significance.” The calculation used by the Trump administration to determine tariff rates resembles the “complex equations” that guided the emissions standards the EPA had placed on states such as West Virginia.
Even when granting emergency powers via IEEPA, however, lawmakers intended a narrow scope—think of President Carter freezing Iranian assets during the hostage crisis, not blanket tariffs on friendly nations.
Mr. Trump’s approach flips this dynamic, treating Congress as a bystander while the president wields emergency powers as a first resort. The Supreme Court, in cases such as Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952), has historically rebuked such overreach, denying, in that case, President Truman’s seizure of U.S. steel mills absent congressional backing. Mr. Trump’s tariffs, though less dramatic than a seizure, similarly encroach on legislative turf.
The implications extend beyond Mr. Trump. If IEEPA authorizes these tariffs, future presidents could invoke the act for any policy framed as mitigating an “emergency.”
The Trump administration complains about judicial overreach. Mr. Trump has even called for the impeachment of certain judges. But by pushing the limits of executive authority, Mr. Trump’s tariffs violate constitutional norms and invite judicial pushback. The solution is simple: Congress must reclaim its role as the arbiter of trade policy. Mr. Trump would likely wield his veto pen in response to any congressional action, so it will fall to the Supreme Court to enforce its major questions doctrine. That may be the only way to restore the delicate balance of power that defines American governance.
Mr. Sracic is a professor of politics and international relations at Youngstown State University and an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute.
No Emergency
I have not contacted my constitutional law expert on this, but my off-the-cuff estimate is that Mr. Sracic is correct.
I have stated for months there is no emergency. And Trump even acts like there is no emergency.
One day he says tariffs are meant to bring manufacturing jobs back. Another day it’s to raise revenue. And yet another day it is about fentanyl.
Ready to Deal
Trump is willing to deal. And over 50 countries are now ready to talk to President Trump about tariffs. Lovely.
Three Deal-Making Problems
- Trump’s idiotic definition of reciprocal will not match the definition anywhere else.
- Trump will not opt for true reciprocal because he won’t for for Value Added Taxes nor will he exclude VATs from his calculation.
- Willingness to deal proves there is no emergency.
To the above list, factor in the idea no one can possibly expect Trump to hold up his end of any deal.
Finding someone with standing to file a lawsuit should be easy. Any small manufacturer clobbered by these idiotic tariffs would likely have standing.
Again, these are my opinions, not those of my expert friend. If and when he chimes in, I will do an update.
Related Posts
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Ted Cruz sounds a potential bloodbath tariff alarm. But how did he vote?
April 6, 2025: Trump Sets a Huge Tariff Sucker Trap for Taiwan and its Chip Industry
Trump cares less about Taiwan than Ukraine.
And in case you missed it please consider Cheese Was a “Key Achievement” of Trump’s USMCA Trade Agreement
Trump is complaining about Canada’s cheese tariffs. In 2018, he was bragging about cheese.
Please read the above post if you have not done so already.
The lies, hypocrisy, and executive overreach based on alleged emergencies is stunning.
So, if countries with VATs have to reduce them to zero will my state legislature be introducing legislation to remove the state sales tax? No, you say? That it’s the prerogative of the state to impose such taxes? So, what you’re saying is that France should repeal its national VAT and then allow each of its administrative districts to set their own VATs and, to make it clear, call these VATs sales taxes so they pass muster with Trump? Got it.
trump has zero philosophy on governing except to keep himself in the biggest and brightest limelight of the world’s attention. he cares zero about tariffs. now his inner circle of people have philosophies and perhaps if they luck out they’ll get what they want. for white trash like musk that’s more free government handouts. for JD’s owner peter thiel it is the same. we are in first inning of trump term. he’ll be onto the next headline by next week or month. bombing persia……….by 2029 january i’m confident the world will have moved on from usa and some of the us states will have effectively nullified all federal orders. west coast ports and taxpayers. won’t collect or remit federal funds………
Sad that you think that Trump’s efforts to reverse 80 years of laxity on trade is too strong. Are you really advocating we continue to basiclly subsidize foreign imports that cost U.S. businesses and jobs? Well, here is a list of the favored tricks our trade partners have devised to thwart U.S exporters & make it cheaper for our companies to set up shop overseas: Import Tariffs; Non-Tariff Barriers including regulatory and procedural obstacles that restrict trade without directly imposing taxes: Quotas: Limits on the quantity of U.S. goods that can be imported into a country; Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT): Unnecessarily restrictive standards, conformity assessment procedures, or technical regulations that make it difficult for U.S. products to comply; Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS): Health and safety standards that may be overly stringent or discriminatory against U.S. agricultural and food products; Licensing Restrictions: Requirements for special permits or licenses to import certain goods, which can delay or block imports; Customs Barriers: Inefficient customs procedures or excessive documentation requirements that hinder trade facilitation; Discriminatory Standards: Regulatory standards favoring domestic products over U.S. imports; Inadequate Intellectual Property Protections: Weak patent, copyright, and trademark regimes in foreign markets can disadvantage U.S. companies; Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows: Restrictions on digital services and data transfers affecting U.S. tech companies; Currency Manipulation: Practices that undervalue currencies to make U.S. goods more expensive in foreign markets; Value-Added Taxes (VAT): High VAT rates applied disproportionately to imported goods, including those from the U.S.; Subsidies for Domestic Industries: Foreign governments provide subsidies to local industries, making them more competitive than U.S. imports; State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs): Favoritism towards domestic SOEs can limit market access for U.S. businesses; Bribery and Corruption: Corrupt practices in foreign markets may disadvantage U.S. exporters who adhere to stricter ethical standards. These are some but not all of the measures designed to create barriers for U.S. products in international markets, often under the guise of protecting domestic industries or ensuring public safety.If this isn’t an emergency then you & your ilk have your head firmly implanted in the sand. It’s time to pull your head out and stand up for the U.S taxpayer.
Nice list. You should work for the World Bank. But the US does most of these things as well.
trump was told tarrifs will work. being uneducated he can’t grasp how he is crashing the economy for the 2nd time. the first was with covidiocy. and he has another ignorant oligarch whispering in his ear. neither one understands economics.
Was Sweden the only country in Europe that didn’t lock down their economy during Covid?
This was so freaking good!
The trillions lost in market value were never going to be kept anyways. The market is a preposterous bubble funded by bad debt caused by the Fed If anyone here thinks these gains were sustainable, they are delusional.
The commenrs are so one sided. Were we supposed to continue to grow the governmemt? Funny that no one drives american cars outside north america. Semiconductors? No fabs in US producing anything relevant. Are we supposed to run deficits till we are broke?
Everyone is crying over the market dropping. Anyone who didnt see this is a moron. Trump telegraphed it for weeks. Also the mag 7 market leaders were all started dropping long before the tariff drop. Hogs get slaughtered. Having a PE/10 in the top 95% of market history didnt alarm anyone? Buffet sitting on 300+ billions in cash didnt garner concern? Anyone losing their ass got what they had coming.
Leversge is the only way to bring folks to the table. The rest us all talk.
Trumo is finally doing what no one had balls to do. He is simultaneously going to bring iinvestment to the us, reduce govt spending, and force the Feds hand to lower rates and refinance the debt. Hes dismamtling the house of cards economy and establishing fundamentals. You all are crying cause the punch bowl is gone lol.
For starters I am not crying the people who lose jobs over this complete stupidity will be.
Yes it’s totally magic.
I explained how magic works
https://mishtalk.com/economics/lutnick-says-tariffs-can-eliminate-the-irs-and-balance-the-budget/
Reciprocal Tariffs
We have an annual trade deficit of $918 billion.
Team Trump proposes $918 billion in “reciprocal tariffs” to make the trade deficit go away.
But to balance the budget and eliminate personal income taxes, Trump would need to collect $7 trillion in tariffs on a net trade deficit of $918 billion.
I would love to hear a detailed explanation of exactly how that works.
Are you ready for that miracle? Me too. But wait, there are still more benefits to this amazing deal.
Trumps Claims
Tariffs will increase revenue enough to balance the budget
Tariffs will bring manufacturing back to the US
Tariffs will reduce inflation
Tariffs will increase exports
Conflicting Economic Madness
Points 1 and 2 conflict. Tariffs cannot simultaneously bring back manufacturing and raise enough revenue to balance the budget.
Points 2 and 3 conflict. Since the US is one of the world’s highest cost producer of goods thanks to unions, tariffs will not reduce inflation.
Points 2 and 4 conflict. Since the US is one of the world’s highest cost producer of goods, and other countries will retaliate, tariffs will not increase exports.
And this is exactly the questions that Congress should be raising!
Please post this reply on X, where the Trumpsters all seem to hang out.
translation trump is off his rocker.
There are several issues in the tariff debate. Before the globalization of trade, in order to export, a country had to have an internal market for manufactured goods it produced. Tariffs were used against “dumping” those manufactured products, as well as less expensive foreign made products that competed directly with a country’s internally manufactured goods. Globalization has produced de-industrialization of high-wage countries to low wage countries countries. As the low wage countries start to raise living standards, they magically become high wage countries, and manufacturing moves again.
I understand the reason for tariffs in general, and at the end of the day, it is better for countries to be as self sufficient as possible
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Trump is, at his core, a bully. The “Peace Through Strength” slogan really means do as “we, the US” tell you to do, or we will bomb the hell out of you. Realistically, the US does not have the industrial capacity to do that, due to the de-industrialization of the US. Russia and China do not fear the US militarily, they fear the insanity of the politicians looking for the next war. Trump needs to make Russia and China, once again, fear the US militarily. To do that, re-industrialization through tariffs is needed. As an aside, I believe that most countries understand that the US government has always shown itself to be agreement incapable, meaning it starts to re-interpret agreements made, before the ink is dry.
On a different note, while I appreciate Mr. Sracic’s opinion on the legality, my suspicion is that Trump will rely on the legal maxim “EXPRESIO UNIUS EST EXCLUSIO ALTERIUS” https://dictionary.thelaw.com/expresio-unius-est-exclusio-alterius/ Article 1 Section 8 contains a list. While “Imposts” refer to taxes on imports, the word “Tariff(s)” does not appear. To be clear, I am not suggesting that Trump is correct, rather bullies don’t care about details like agreements, laws, or constitutions.
I’m also guessing that when Chinese slave labor is abandoned so Americans can have slave labor wages…we will all be good.
no one wants to invest in a dismal economy thats failing.
Apparently the geniuses who came up with the formula (Navarro?) didn’t calculate it correctly and the tariffs Trump used are something like 4x what they should have been had the formula been correctly calculated.
Net: “If the assumptions surrounding elasticity are adjusted in Trump’s formula, no country’s tariff would exceed 14%, the economists say.”
“Their mistake is that they base the elasticity on the response of retail prices to tariffs, as opposed to import prices as they should have done,” the scholars wrote.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/05/economists-take-issue-with-trumps-tariff-formula-arguing-rate-is-inflated.html
Well, maybe, at the last minute, Trump and his flunkies decided to liberate us from our earthly belongings. Who knew that MAGA will try to turn all of us into Buddhist monks.
Oops! Fired the math guy, eh?
Taxation without representation.
Biden was trying to make people’s lives a little easier. Trump is wrecking the economy and alienating all of our allies. The economic fallout will dwarf anything Biden could have caused with loan forgiveness.
CNBC had an online article yesterday about a woman in Montana who is sad because Trump isn’t going to cancel the $250,000 she borrowed to get a law degree and a masters in sustainable development. That’s not “a little easier”. That’s Robin Hood in reverse. I know a person who also had over $200k in student loans that he was on track to have forgiven because he worked for a “non profit”. He had a $220,000 salary working for a solar panel company.
For Mish to claim ”as bad” seems wrong to me as well…
a stretch…
an attempt to normalize the actions of King Chaos.
If there were only one “stunning” overreach award to hand out…
I seriously doubt we’d see 50-50 odds on Sleepy Joe.
The lies, hypocrisy, and executive overreach based on alleged emergencies is stunning.
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Two wrongs don’t make a right ? What about the “border emergency?”
The heads defense, nsc and homeland security owe a report to Trump by April 20th on whether to declare a national emergency. Incidentally April 20th is a day celebrated by right wing nazi organizations as it is Hitler’s birthday. Chatter this year is that Trump will finally do what they have wanted for decades. Gabbard and Hegseth are friends of multiple right wing movements who have been waiting for this moment for decades.
Don’t say you weren’t warned or didn’t see it coming.
I call BS. First, April 20 is a Sunday … not likely to be a federal deadline. Second, it’s coincidentally 3 months from Inauguration Day … a sensible time for a quick turnaround study to be done.
It is Easter Sunday
420? LOL, do you know what day 420 is? 🇯🇲🌿
Literally “Get high with Jesus on Easter Sunday!”
Well those said the border was an emergency can’t have it both ways.
Looks like 2009 will be here sooner than folks think.
Trump’s Trade War Is Setting Up the Next Big Debt Default Wave
https://archive.is/mju8m
dr mish tries and tries but its hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiCFdWeQfA&t=57s
Trump says you need to “hang on” while the Trumpocolypse™ takes your job, house, auto, 401k and marriage while he plays golf. Oh and you’ll be paying more for everything too so just ‘hang on’ you dolts.
Winning! /s
I forgot to add, if you think you’ll be fine with your social security boomers, sorry, you’ll be reaping what you have sown. Karma offers up sweet poetic justice!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/musk-doge-social-security
Office closures, staffing and service cuts, and policy changes at the Social Security Administration (SSA) have caused “complete, utter chaos” and are threatening to send the agency into a “death spiral”, according to workers at the agency.
The SSA operates the largest government program in the US, administering social insurance programs, including retirement, disability and survivor benefits.
An average of almost 69 million Americans per month will receive a social security benefit in 2025, totaling about $1.6tn in benefits paid during the year and accounting for 22% of the federal budget.
I bet your wrong.
Mish, did you sell your stocks or are you staying invested? Looks like we’re headed for another big down day tomorrow.
During the Great Recession, I held on to my stock positions and my covered calls. The calls expired worthless and the stocks eventually recovered. My IRA rollover came out just fine. Then there was the columnist at the Wall Street Journal who told his readers in his “Cheapskate” column that he had sold half of his stocks. His column soon disappeared. I thought he had been fired, but later learned that he had been reassigned.
Yes it does look like another down day tomorrow.
Except that Biden did not tank the markets
Biden wanted to forgive $1 trillion in debt, in theory since that’s the outstanding amount. Trump has caused $11 trillion in market losses and climbing. I’d day trump is 11x worse based on math.
One of these presidents felt constrained by the law
What I don’t get about trumps populist movement is their love for billionaires. Their story of fighting for the little man is comical if it wasn’t so disastrous.
How can one really be surprised if he or she did their homework after reviewing what trump said he was going to do.
He was able to play some golf this weekend so he must not be too concerned.
And he lined his pockets with Saudi money. It was a productive weekend for him, while our 401(k)’s keep melting down given what’s happening in Asian markets right now.
Trump’s tariffs will be paused by the federal courts and stricken after the hearing. Trump does not have the legal right to impose widespread tariffs using his emergency powers. We’re not in an emergency, other than the one he’s causing with outrageous, reckless tariffs that will raise the price of goods. Taxes are supposed to be decided by Congress. Most Republicans should be getting ready to impeach and remove Trump but they’re afraid of his voter base.
Congress is afraid to decide anything, so they’ve ceded their power to the executive and department heads. Whether Trump loses in court – and to what degree – remains to be seen.
I agree with you…but the Supreme Court made him king. That’s a bit of a problem.
By the time Trump loses in court, we will all be Buddhist monks.
lol!! Brilliantly funny!
The Dow futured made a rd trip to 2022 high, but popped above, Howard Lutnick: tariffs will stay for weeks. When QQQ reaches 500 the puke media will bonk.
Excellent article!
DC GDP per capita: $260,000. NY: 110,000. CA: 98.000… Mississippi:40,000, China: 12,200. Trump promised to deflate the entitle people in order to reduce the spread between DC and Mississippi not between Mississippi and China.
“Trump promised to deflate the entitle people in order to reduce the spread between DC and Mississippi not between Mississippi and China.”
We don’t want central planners in the U.S. or China, both fail miserably.
You guys are the ones usually braying about income inequality – and not without reason.
With enough flexibility we can avoid the first sovereign default since the 1840’s. Was it done before: yes, Trimming gov size and debt isn’t new. Wilson, FDR, LBJ, R/R, GW Bush and Obama raised debt. Trump wants to reversed a100 years trend. The entitled people protest, but the forgotten people and the zoomers like what he is doing.
Unless he makes massive cuts to social security Medicare/Medicaid benefits or cuts the military, there’s no way the government will be any smaller than it was under Biden.
Purging government of intellectuals was purely done out of revenge.
Yep. Notice the similar intents with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for_the_Restoration_of_the_Professional_Civil_Service. It looks to be a version not targeting jews. Maybe if Twitter existed back then they would had be boasting in how many communists they were gutting.
The precedent will now be for no tariffs ever again. Possibly sanctions,Taiwan/Ukraine, would be the only way to modify international trade.
Can’t you see what is going on here? Tariffs, for at least a generation, will have such a bad connotation, they won’t be used by the United States.
Trade deficits north of $2 Trillion coming right up.
I feel sorry for the rest of the world. Financing our excesses.
The rest of the world will be fine. They will all continue to trade with each other and avoid the US as much as possible. Trump will succeed in isolating us from everyone else.
Not sure. Scaling back manufacturing is the matter of a decade. Overnight tariffs after an election wasn’t the right way to do it.
I have yet to be able to find a Tariff List in Spreadsheet Format. It could be useful for analysis.
2024: https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/world_tariff_profiles24_e.pdf
Whoa! Ask and you shall receive, David. Bryan served up exactly what you asked for and then some. Now if all of you tariff experts out there are willing to go through a 10 hour learning curve to understand the WTO report, I invite you all to have at it and get back to us.
Hmm, looks like we’ve moved from fearmongering about tariffs to claiming they’re illegal. I’m getting the feeling the tariff-deniers might be getting ready to concede soon.
Dow futures down 1300 so maybe another 2000 point loss day. Trump’s losses on the stock market will be up to $15 trillion at sooner or later. At some point margin calls kick in and banks & brokers start failing.
But I’m sure you’ll be fine in your trailer.
The whole basis of these tariffs is a bad-faith, purposeful misinterpretation and misuse of Congress’s authorization. Like immigration, these are long-term problems designed under the Constitution to be hashed out by the deliberative parts of government (Congress), not the more fast-twitch action and design of the executive. That said, Congress failed for a long time to come to terms with both issues, making a more fragile, unstable and reversible kind of action (executive orders). Hence the chaos and reversals in these areas from admin to admin. The fault ultimately is in the small-minded electorate, which does not demand its elected officials to simply do their job. The selfishness trickles up and down. Sorry, founders. The system has decayed.
Oct, Nov and Dec 1987 glued together had a huge buying tail.
The tariffs are all reciprocal except where security issues are involved, in which case they are punitive. Except China, in which case just about everything is wrong, and this is only the beginning. All of the countries that are complaining can have the tariffs removed instantly by either removing their own tariffs on the US or complying with security concerns (except China, which is a nasty mess). All the whiners are just trying to protect their own tariffs, or their own criminals/lack of security measures. (Except China, which is engaging in economic warfare.)
We closed the border….and now china!!
But what about slave labor & the bottom line.
Do you realize what this will do to corporate profit margins?!!
Can I at least assume Bernie is now a Trump supporter?
💯 Well put, Tom.
https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1907826061577945127
The stock market is down for technical reasons. From yesterday: if congress gang on Trump, he can veto it. Congress doesn’t have enough votes to overrule him. Today spin: rouge senators protect our US constitution. They don’t care about the constitution. The complain bc they might lose their jobs.
Anyone who doesn’t know the USA is in an emergency employment crisis needs to go live in Chicago.
Yep. Same things for France who experienced similar deindustrialization.
Trump & Elon fired the FDA Executive that approved Trump’s Life Saving Covid Drugs – he does not even know this either.
https://youtube.com/shorts/qyf6oR_lrXs?si=9XlzEfRBwoeZXtmO
Rachel Maddow?…Pullease
Try again.
The guy is an oncologist (not an authority on immunology/virology/or anything related to Covid), he is part of the merry-go-round between drug makers and the FDA (an appointed director rubber stamping approval via EUA is not some special ability, he’ll find his way into phyzur/morederna soon enough), and those “drugs” were not life-saving (at first they allegedly conveyed immunity, then they protected others, then they were downgraded to keeping one out of the hospital…maybe).
RFK Jr., the head of HHS, pushed Dr. Peter Marks out of the FDA.
Nikki Haley joined the Hudson Institute in April 2024.
That’s all I need to know about anyone blabbering about Trump’s tariffs.
This is the exact question I posed yesterday. What is being done about this???
Actually the emergency exists in the form of a credit doom loop which the government is currently immersed in. This situation is catastrophic enough and will only be dealt with by the Federal Reserve monetizing further the debt and exaggerating the situation further. By upsetting the apple cart there is a possible inverse Paul Volker effect that might take place.
Emergencies emerge quickly, by definition. This is a slow wave we have seen for years — Pete Peterson was yelling about it under Nixon. Congress is the deliberative body designed to create solutions suitable to the depth and complexity of the problem, and the solutions. Congress has failed (as it did with immigration) to simply do its job, per he Constitution. This is a problem, but not an “emergency.” It is not a brush fire crunching down on us now. It could go further for decades more before completely breaking down. Congress, fix it!
We need something different that Congress. We need to be able to hold their feet to the fire and that requires being able to recall Congresspeople easily or even dissolve the whole Congress with a statement of no confidence.
I don’t agree. It appears that EU and China try to crash the market to negotiate for them. So we just cave? Tariff won’t cause recession, it will force the doestmic retails to switch the suppliers. Its challegen but its not uncommon.
Biden didn’t crash the stock market nor push the economy into a likely recession
Right, he was a corrupt, incompetent senile ahole and was head of the Biden crime family. Persecuted his political enemy like they do in third world corrupt dicktasterships.
Trump is a convicted felon. You all love felons. Sort it out would you.
He was foolish to try to cancel debts. But he stayed in his lane in terms of “break glass” emergencies.
War in the Ukraine. US personnel guiding US missiles into Russia,
Middle East turning back into a dumpster fire. Great job replenishing
Iran. Pardons going back to 2014…hmmm.. what happened that year?
But you are correct…he stayed in his lane!!
2021? 🙄
That’s a lot of jibber jabber.
Let’s sum it up like this: We are not choosing a new path.
See, that wasn’t all that hard. Nice Jew hating by the way.
Now we know for sure which side you’re one.
Oh, I see stating facts is now antisemitism. Typical.
Go ahead and whine. No one in power cares.
Saying there’s a genocide going on in Gaza is not FACT just because you say it.
Israel going after Hamas is not genocide. Israel has gone out of there way to no kill excessive numbers of civilians.
We are choosing a new path. (my bad)
From the river to the sea is genocide.
You don’t understand the definition of the word you use. But that is clear with much that you write here.
But allow me to fix your statement for you:
“From the river to the sea, Israel will be free of Palestinians soon”.
Yep! That’s what they want until Israel has been kicking their asses for the last 18 months. Now that Hamas has been decimated is the time for those remaining to tell Hamas to get the hell out of Gaza. Doing so will attract a lot more rebuilding aid once Hamas finally releases the rest of the hostages or keeps murdering them down to the last one.
Ah, from the any criticism of israel must be anti semetic camp, that’s SOP for Netanyahu, Jay surely you can do better than that, I do agree that Mr Dallas does need to consolidate his writings somewhat.
It is when you start calling what Israel is doing genocide which it’s not.
Now, you can say for sure that Israel appears to have as its goal to raze the entire city down to rubble, but that’s not genocide. Blowing up buildings is NOT genocide. Telling civilians to evacuate areas before the fighting starts is NOT genocide. Limiting collateral damage like what Israel has done is NOT genocide.
The Nazis and various factions of African countries over the last several decades have attempted genocide.
Israel is simply protecting its country from Hamas who is backed by Iran, the #1 sponsor of global terrorism.
The Russians & Ukrainians are killing fewer than one child per day, combined in a war that’s killed WAY more people. Israel is killing over 100 children per day. That’s genocide.
Perfect summation of why we are circling the drain. We have been doing what every great empire throughout history has done to facilitate its demise. The only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn anything from history.
By “we” you mean the political class and crony capitalists. They are who we (along citizens worldwide) are at war with.
I don’t read 12 inches comments, but where the hell are Soros and the Rothschilds this Sunday.
Are there any Rothschilds in the banking business worth at least $1 billion? Yes, there are a lot of them who can trace their ancestry back to Mayer Amschel Rothschild of 18th century Frankfurt Am main, but what have they done lately?