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Schumer: We Want to Take Tariff Authority from Trump We Allowed Biden to Have Because Trump’s ‘Going So Overboard’
Ian Hanchett 8 Apr 2025

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) responded to a question on whether Democrats should have reclaimed congressional power on tariffs when they were in the majority during the Biden administration by stating that “Congress has always had the power to deal with tariffs, and we’ve always had these fights in the past on some of the tariff issues as well. But now that Trump is going so overboard, Congress can, has every legal authority to take those powers back, and that’s what we aim to do.”

Host Brianna Keilar asked, “On the tariff issue, you’ve been in the Senate for more than a quarter-century, and, in that time, Congress has been really willing to delegate tariff power to the president. Should Democrats have reclaimed that power when they had last — the majority? You saw what Trump did in his first term with tariffs.

Schumer responded, “Well, yeah, but we were able to beat back a lot of what Trump did on tariffs. And nothing is as extensive as this is, over 180 countries affected. Hey, this has been so carelessly done that they’re even taxing — they’re putting tariffs on penguins. There are two islands near Australia –.”

Keilar then cut in to ask, “I hear what you’re saying, the tariffs are extraordinary now compared to what they were in his first term. But what he did in his first term was also pretty extraordinary. Should Democrats have protected against this?”

Schumer responded, “Congress has always had the power to deal with tariffs, and we’ve always had these fights in the past on some of the tariff issues as well. But now that Trump is going so overboard, Congress can, has every legal authority to take those powers back, and that’s what we aim to do. And we hope our colleagues in the Republican Party, knowing how bad this is, instead of just trembling in their boots because they’re afraid of Trump, join with us and side with the American people.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/08/schumer-we-want-to-take-tariff-authority-from-trump-we-allowed-biden-to-have-because-trumps-going-so-overboard/
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Congressional crooks join arms to abolish Trump tariffs, Musk smells a rat
April 9, 2025 | Chris Donaldson

Democrats and Republicans in Congress may fight like cats and dogs, but there is one area where there is common ground: protecting the corrupt spoils system that lines their pockets.

In a show of bipartisanship rarely seen in the modern era, lawmakers from both parties are unifying against President Donald J. Trump’s tariffs on foreign countries that have been allowed to exploit the U.S. on trade for decades.

Moving swiftly to react to Trump’s fulfilling his campaign promises with his “Liberation Day” tariffs, bipartisan groups of lawmakers in both houses have put together legislation designed to sabotage the president’s efforts to level the playing field and protect American workers against the exploiters who have offshored their jobs to low cost foreign locations for decades.

Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) touted the newfound unity between the parties against a common threat, proclaiming, “We have a duty to act in a bipartisan way to repeal these tariffs.”

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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/09/congressional-crooks-join-arms-to-abolish-trump-tariffs-musk-smells-a-rat-1535103/
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