The author explains how it was never proven or acknowledged that the border with Mexico was an emergency. I read the Order and there is nothing in there to prove his contention that the situation was an emergency. No facts, statistics, footnotes, etc. Just trump lying again.
So I said to myself, well, maybe it only went down a percentage point, or half a percentage point, in which case you might say the decrease is insignificant.
Not the case.
It went down 4%, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
The IEEPA requires that its use is restricted to emergencies that are unusual and extraordinary.
Unusual and extraordinary seems to me to cease when the problem is receding.
One would think that--with the enormous impact this is going to have on the economies of all three states--Mexico, Canada, and the U.S., that someone would have read this more thoroughly and raised an issue about it immediately. Wouldn't that be the House Ways & Means Committee--Trade? On their website they have their issues listed and they haven't even considered anything in 2025, after trump took office!
We have the 30 days now (except for China), so either Congress or the courts will be the next step. You can be sure that with the amount of money involved, lawsuits will be filed.
The article states the easiest thing to do, however, would be terminate the emergency through a joint resolution; unfortunately that requires a veto-proof majority. Terminating the "emergency" rescinds any actions taken by trump for the emergency.
The good news is that at least they have started--Congress is trying to amend IEEPA to prevent the president from levying tariffs. Tim Kaine, Shaheen, and Wyden introduced this bill.
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