{"id":13301,"date":"2025-09-16T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-leaders-move-to-extend-block-on-tariff-termination-votes\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:02:00","slug":"house-gop-leaders-move-to-extend-block-on-tariff-termination-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-leaders-move-to-extend-block-on-tariff-termination-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP leaders move to extend block on tariff termination votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Republican leaders are moving to again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/05\/congress\/house-rules-tariff-votes-blocked-00330130\" target=\"_blank\">head off votes<\/a> trying to cancel much of President Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tariff regime.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/rules.house.gov\/files\/documents\/rule_hr4922-5143-5140-5125-1047-3015-3062.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">procedural measure<\/a> Republicans on the Rules Committee advanced Monday night would extend until March 31 a block on efforts by Democrats and several Republicans to end the national emergencies underlying Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs \u2014 including on Mexico, Canada, Brazil and his \u201cliberation day\u201d levies from April.<\/p>\n<p>It would also block \u201cresolutions of inquiry,\u201d measures that can be used by the House to compel the release of information from the executive branch.<\/p>\n<p>The House is set to vote Tuesday on the measure, which also tees up several D.C. crime- and governance-related bills for floor debate.<\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders have struggled to keep their ranks in line on tariff-related votes. On Monday, their bid to strangle a Democratic-led effort to end Trump\u2019s Brazil levies succeeded only narrowly, <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2025265?Page=2\" target=\"_blank\">200-198<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican leaders are moving to again head off votes trying to cancel much of President Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tariff regime. A procedural measure Republicans on the Rules Committee advanced Monday night would extend until March 31 a block on efforts by Democrats and several Republicans to end the national emergencies underlying Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}