A staffer for Republican Senator Mike Lee told trade experts at a lunch in Washington this week that he is looking into ways to curtail the president’s wide-ranging powers to impose tariffs, according to one of Lee’s aides.
The aide said a bill could be introduced as early as next week, and it may require Trump to go through Congress to use tariffs…
The aide emphasized that the bill is not just a push against Trump on trade, but part of a broader effort to transfer more legislative power to Congress from the executive branch…
“It’s a useful shot across the bow, it’s going to tell the president that this is going to be more difficult than he might think,” says William Reinsch, a trade expert at the Stimson Center, a non-partisan research group in Washington. Reinsch attended the lunch.
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