{"id":18813,"date":"2026-02-10T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-moves-to-again-block-house-from-voting-on-trump-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:47:07","slug":"johnson-moves-to-again-block-house-from-voting-on-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-moves-to-again-block-house-from-voting-on-trump-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson moves to again block House from voting on Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/242539\" data-person-id=\"242539\">Mike Johnson<\/a> said Monday he is moving forward with a plan to revive a prohibition on House votes to overturn President Donald Trump&#8217;s global tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson told reporters he believes he will have the votes to include the block in a procedural measure set for House consideration Tuesday. The House Rules Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/rules.house.gov\/files\/documents\/rule_hr2189hr261hr3617.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">approved legislation Monday<\/a> that would prevent any further tariff votes through July 31.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/16\/congress\/house-again-votes-to-surrender-tariff-powers-to-trump-00566975\" target=\"_blank\">previous blockade imposed by GOP leaders<\/a> expired \u2014 and House Democrats threatened to force a vote as soon as Wednesday that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/09\/congress\/house-vote-canada-tariffs-00772224\" target=\"_blank\">effectively cancel Trump&#8217;s tariffs on Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it is far from clear that Johnson will actually have the necessary votes. A band of House Republicans are already pushing back on the plans, with a group of at least six tariff-skeptical GOP members discussing the matter on the floor Monday night. With united Democratic opposition expected, nays from as few as two Republicans could derail the effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday he is moving forward with a plan to revive a prohibition on House votes to overturn President Donald Trump&#8217;s global tariffs. Johnson told reporters he believes he will have the votes to include the block in a procedural measure set for House consideration Tuesday. The House Rules Committee approved legislation [&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-18813","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\/18813","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=18813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}