{"id":13357,"date":"2025-09-16T19:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-again-votes-to-surrender-tariff-powers-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:16:42","slug":"house-again-votes-to-surrender-tariff-powers-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-again-votes-to-surrender-tariff-powers-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"House again votes to surrender tariff powers to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Republicans voted in near lockstep Tuesday to again cede congressional power over tariffs to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A measure that effectively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/15\/congress\/house-gop-to-extend-block-on-tariff-votes-00565091\" target=\"_blank\">blocks challenges to Trump&#8217;s sweeping global tariff declarations<\/a> through March 2026 was adopted on a 213-211 vote. The vote was gaveled down only after GOP whips had a drawn-out struggle on the floor with a band of Republicans who initially opposed the legislation before flipping to yes. The vote was held open for more than a half-hour as they worked to bring the members back on board.<\/p>\n<p>Three Republicans \u2014 Reps. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/260571\" data-person-id=\"260571\">Kevin Kiley<\/a> of California, <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/198835\" data-person-id=\"198835\">Thomas Massie<\/a> of Kentucky and <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/276525\" data-person-id=\"276525\">Victoria Spartz<\/a> of Indiana \u2014 ended up joining Democrats to oppose the measure, a &#8220;rule&#8221; which also teed up several D.C.-related criminal justice bills for debate. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a misuse of what rules are for, and I think it&#8217;s bad for the representative process,\u201d Kiley said of the tariff provisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans voted in near lockstep Tuesday to again cede congressional power over tariffs to President Donald Trump. A measure that effectively blocks challenges to Trump&#8217;s sweeping global tariff declarations through March 2026 was adopted on a 213-211 vote. The vote was gaveled down only after GOP whips had a drawn-out struggle on the floor [&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-13357","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\/13357","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=13357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}