@victorvonvortex@mastodon.social
Post #4451909
2026-08-08 23:03 UTC
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
This is worrisome:
The bill "could allow Trump to drop 100 percent tariffs on virtually any country he likes, for as long as he likes, and with pretty much bulletproof legal authority to do so; which means even the Supreme Court couldn’t bail out Congress (or the rest of us)..."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-voting-to-give-trump-a-tariff
Rand Paul and Ron Wyden offered an amendment that would have stripped some of the new tariff authority from the text, but the Senate rejected it...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/07/russia-sanctions-senate-passed-petroleum
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social 2026-08-08 23:12
@victorvonvortex@mastodon.social The Guardian link doesn't work, but thank you for sharing that! Maybe it's appropriate to name it after Graham after all, weasel that he always was. I too hope this doesn't result in more tariff chaos, although if it does... as awful as that is, it will only enrage MAGAs even more. There's nothing for it in any case, but for us to keep resisting in every way we can. Add it to the ever growing list of shit the next president will have to clean up.