When the market around the world declined and other countries planned retaliation as a reaction to President Donald Trump’s stroke tariff, Senator Republic of Chuck Grassley and Democrats Maria Cantwell introduced the Bipartisan Law on Thursday which required the Congress to approve new tariffs.
And the Democrat House is preparing to try to force the vote to end the tariff.
The reaction to the tariff and its impact is predicted to be divided along the party line in Capitol Hill, although some Republican said they were concerned about how the market reaction.
The Senate Bill will ask the President to tell the congress about new tariffs within 48 hours and so that the Congress acts to approve the tariff within 60 days.
Senator Chuck Schumer on the Senate Floor in Capitol, 3 April 2025.
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It is not clear whether the bill will have support that must be passed. But it came less than a day after four Republicans voted by Democrats to issue a resolution that would block Trump tariffs on Canadian products.
Cantwell said his Bill and Grasley came when the congress had to “reiterate himself in our constitutional duties.” He said that was modeled after the resolution of the power of war in 1973 and would “rebuild the limits of the President’s authority,” especially in connection with imposing tariffs without the consent of the congress.
“The congress in the law of the power of war decided to reclaim his authority because they thought a president had exceeded the limits,” Cantwell said.
Cantwell and Grassley served at the Senate Financial Committee. Grassley, a former chairman, has long advocated the role of the congress in trading policy.
In the Parliament, the law of the national emergency used by Trump to impose a new tariff allows the Congress to vote on the resolution of disagreement that will effectively cancel it. The congress must vote within 15 days after Trump told the congress about the new declaration, Democratic Assistant told ABC News.
While Republicans can pass a new step to prevent the congress to stop Trump’s policy, Democrats believe that Republicans will pay a greater political price.
“Every change in the rules will be a voice that supports the presidential tariff,” a senior Democratic aide told ABC News.
The minority leader of the Chuck Schumer senate said the tariff was one of the “stupid” decisions that Trump made as president, “and that said something.”
“Donald Trump has once created financial forest fires,” Schumer said on the senate floor.
Schumer asked speakers Mike Johnson to call the DPR back to the session to take the Senate resolution that would block Canadian goods tariffs. Republican Party Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul chose with Democrats on Wednesday to pass a bill written by Paul with the Democratic Democrats of the Kaketke team.
McConnell on Thursday said “a trade war with our partners most hurt people who work.”
Senator Maria Cantwell spoke in Capitol, April 3, 2025.
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Asked whether Trump had taken the right step, the Republic of Mike Rounds senator from South Dakota said, “We will find out.”
“One thing we know is that the President is very clear that he thinks there must be a fair trade agreement with our partners, our friends and allies,” Rounds said. “This is the first step. Let’s find out how they respond.”
North Dakota GOP Senator Kevin Cramer said he felt comfortable with where his constituents were standing on Trump tariffs.
“My own constituents chose this,” he said. “This is not like Donald Trump surprised anyone – he has signaled his strong support for the tariff from the beginning, he runs it in the past, and with that he gets 66 percent of the votes in North Dakota, so with this promise they believe it. So, yes, I am comfortable with where my constituents are in it.”
And while he said he was concerned about how the market reacted, Kramer said that the longer trend would be clearer.
“Well, you know the market is emotional – always,” Kramer said. “I have never seen a day of the market and see the trend, so, you know, we will see, but I hope that, as I said, that it finds the bottom and then starts finding the sky later.”
Democratic senator Chris Coons of Rhode Island said the tariff was “crazy” and said the launch was “another thing that was not coherent, planned badly, and would have significant consequences.”
Kainke said that several Republicans who chose to oppose their resolution on Wednesday told him that he was not wrong, but they would give Trump benefits from the doubt.
Asked if he thought they might raise their voices when everything played, he said, “Yes, because I think they will hear from their constituents harder and harder and harder.” They will see that it will not succeed, and when it doesn’t work, I cannot imagine that they will stand like, you know, the president pushes our economy into the recession. “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “Irmara” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” Ire
-ABC News’ Mariam Khan and Rachel Scott contributed to this report.