Republican House Speaker SINKS With Brutal Trump Admission Over Tariff Escalation
May 1, 2025
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as posted by the channelRepublican House Speaker Mike Johnson sinks in a humiliating admission when confronted on raising an emergency declaration over Donald Trump overstepping constitutional power of congressional authority for tariffs and crashing the American economy during an Axios News Shapers event. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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ExclusiveJohnson would call Trump before raising alarm on constitutional power
"Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) said Wednesday at an Axios News Shapers event that he'd call President Trump before stepping in if he ever felt the administration's tariff policy had begun to encroach on Congress' constitutional powers.
Why it matters: Congress has ceded its tariff power to Trump for now, even amid economic turbulence. Johnson said Trump's tariffs are working and that he talks to the president "sometimes multiple times a day."
"I think the executive has a broad array of authority that's been recognized over the years," Johnson told Axios' Hans Nichols. "If it gets close to where the imbalance is there, then we would step in."
"But I think the first protocol, to be very frank, is I would call the president and talk with him," he added."
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