House Republicans preparing to ease way for Trump's sweeping tariff plans
According to Fox News, House Republicans are already working hard to clear a path for President Donald Trump to enact his tariff plans that we heard so much about on the campaign trail.
New Rep. Riley Moore, a Republican from West Virginia, is reintroducing the U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act, which, if passed, would allow President Trump to make decisions on import taxes from both adversaries and allies.
Trump would be required to notify Congress, however, which could then file a joint resolution of disapproval against the moves.
"American manufacturing has endured decades of decline under the globalist system that has hollowed out our industrial base and shipped countless jobs overseas. Leaders in both political parties deserve blame. But those days are over," Moore said in a statement.
Moore credited Trump with being "the first national politician in my lifetime to recognize this problem, campaign on it, and work to reverse that trend."
"With the U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act, we’ll give the executive the leverage necessary to go to bat for the American people and achieve tariff reductions on U.S. goods," Moore added.
Trump already has big plans:
"We're talking about a tariff of 10% on China, based on the fact that they're sending fentanyl to Mexico and Canada," he said recently. "Probably February 1st is the date we're looking at."