The Republicans of the House of Representatives are depleting all the legislative tools to avoid future votes to repeal the rates of President Donald Trump, doubleing his support for administration policies.
The leaders of the Republican Party inserted the language in the “rule” on Wednesday for the budget plan that would prohibit the Chamber, up to at least September, to force a vote on the legislation to rescind Trump’s National Emergency Authority.
“The rule establishes that every day during the period from April 9, 2025, until September 30, 2025, it will not constitute a calendar day for the purposes of section 202 of the National Emergency Law (50 USC 1622) with respect to a joint resolution that ends a national emergency declared by the President on April 2, 2025,” says the rule.
The president of the Chamber of the House of Representatives takes a question from a journalist during a press conference after a meeting of Caucus Republican of the Chamber in the United States Capitol, on April 8, 2025 in Washington.
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The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican of LA-LA., Defended the move and told the journalists: “I have made it very clear that I believe that the president has an executive authority. It is an appropriate level of authority to treat unjust commercial practices. That is part of the president’s role is negotiating with other countries.”
Johnson said Trump told him Tuesday night that “there are almost 70 countries that are [in] Some stages in the negotiation of more agreements of Fair Trade Agreement with the United States. I think that is of interest to the American people. I think it is a ‘first’ policy that will be effective, so we have to give them the space to do it. “
President Donald Trump arrives at an executive signature ceremony in the Eastern Hall of the White House in Washington, on April 8, 2025.
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The Democrats of the House of Representatives, led by representative Gregory Meeks, DN.Y., moved to force a vote on Tuesday about the termination of the National Emergency Authority and block the Radical Tariffs of Trump. Now, that vote is unlikely.
This is the second time that Johnson moved to stop the legislative calendar to avoid votes on Trump’s authority in tariffs. According to the chamber rules, these votes would generally appear within 15 calendar days, but now it will not do it if the “rule” approves during the voting series on Wednesday afternoon.
“I think you have to give him the space,” Johnson argued on Trump’s rates. “It is having the desired effect at this time. You see several nations in the future and proposing many more free trade agreements with the United States. The American people deserve it.”
