{"id":8865,"date":"2025-05-05T23:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republicans-again-block-vote-on-trumps-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T23:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:16:44","slug":"house-republicans-again-block-vote-on-trumps-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republicans-again-block-vote-on-trumps-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans again block vote on Trump\u2019s tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Republicans on the House Rules Committee moved again to block a vote on rolling back Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs Monday in their latest effort to protect the president&#8217;s authority over global trade.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats on the panel offered an amendment that would have reversed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/09\/congress\/house-gop-leaders-move-to-quash-vote-on-trumps-global-tariffs-00280922\" target=\"_blank\">earlier Rules<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/03\/11\/congress\/house-republicans-move-to-block-vote-on-trumps-tariffs-00223947\" target=\"_blank\">Committee maneuvers<\/a> that effectively blocked attempts to call floor votes overturning the tariffs. One amendment offered by Rep. Teresa Leger Fern\u00e1ndez (D-N.M.) was ruled out of order by Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.); a second amendment was voted down on party lines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These tariffs are tanking our economy, and the public wants us to take action,&#8221; Leger Fern\u00e1ndez said. <\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson has given Trump immense leeway on the trade levies as the fallout continues to reverberate through the financial markets and the broader global economy. Last week, Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/30\/congress\/mike-johnson-tariffs-congress-00317899\" target=\"_blank\">cracked the door open<\/a> to congressional action on the tariffs if an \u201cimbalance\u201d develops between the branches. But said he didn&#8217;t believe it would become necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans on the House Rules Committee moved again to block a vote on rolling back Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs Monday in their latest effort to protect the president&#8217;s authority over global trade. Democrats on the panel offered an amendment that would have reversed earlier Rules Committee maneuvers that effectively blocked attempts to call floor votes overturning [&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-8865","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\/8865","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=8865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}