Sen. Rand Paul Wants to Strip Tariffs Authority From Trump, Give It to CongressSandy Fitzgerald | Wednesday, 23 April 2025 08:41 AM EDT
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is continuing his push against President Donald Trump's tariffs, with legislation he is co-sponsoring against them to come before the Senate next week.
Paul says lawmakers should be in control of tariffs, rather than Trump, through the use of a national-emergency law.
The discussion will come less than a month after Paul was one of the only two chamber Republicans to vote against his party's budget, which is seen as a key part of the president's tax cuts, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
"I don't have any bad feelings towards the president, but this is an issue that I'm not alone on," Paul told reporters recently. "Millions of investors who are all self-interested have misgivings about tariffs."
He has also called on Congress to "grow a spine," and said "Congress needs to stand up for its prerogatives."
His opposition to the Senate budget framework came because he said he did not think it did enough to reduce the country's national deficit.
Paul says he admires Trump's actions so far, but not the tariffs.
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