so it dawns on me Trump‘s play might be to get Mike Johnson to whoop up some legislation giving Trump the congressional authority to do tariffs with some guidelines and slight limitations that might result in a different judicial interpretation.
but if that is the play - that seems like it would empower all of the GOP hardliners to use that vote as a bargaining chip in the discussions with the Senate about the one big beautiful bill’s deficit increasing aspect. Plus, you would have the purple state/ potentially in election jeopardy Republicans - who could previously attempt to blame tariffs and damage to the economy from tariffs on Trump - but if forced vote to give Trump tariff power now would put the responsibility for any subsequent failure on them personally for that vote when they had a chance not to do it. so maybe Johnson does not get the votes that Trump wants, and it always turns out well for someone who offended Trump.
Which is all to say that shit is gonna get really interesting over the next month. I would love to see Trump and Johnson try to get legislation only to have Johnson not be able to deliver and be kicked out as Speaker….hopefully with a shit show of a House Speaker election like the last few.
in reality, we were just waiting this summer to see what hurricane hits where - and how fun it will be when Trump says FEMA can’t help.