Efforts to roll back President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs will face an uphill climb in the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson is telling Republicans to stand firmly with Trump — even as markets tank and consumer prices are expected to soar.
But Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, is planning to introduce legislation to subject new tariffs to congressional review, a companion bill to a bipartisan effort on the Senate side. Bacon told NOTUS in a text message on Monday that he will be willing “at some point” to file a discharge petition to force a vote on the matter if needed, a maneuver to sidestep the speaker’s opposition.
“We think that it’s been abused,” Bacon said of the emergency powers Trump used to implement his tariffs.