President Trump’s tariffs are being challenged in the U.S. House after it failed to continue delaying measures to end the tariffs, which opened the door to potential action. The House narrowly rejected any further moratorium on votes to end the president’s national emergency he used to impose his tariff, leading to a planned vote on ending it.
Three Republicans —Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Nebraska’s Don Bacon, and Kevin Kiley of California— voted with all the chamber’s Democrats not to extend the moratorium. House Speaker Mike Johnson argued for renewal, telling reporters.
Including farmers who’ve complained the tariffs have cost market share, depressed crop prices, and raised costs on inputs like fertilizer. Johnson counters that new trade deals have boosted markets for farmers and others.
Nebraska’s Bacon wrote on X that “Article I of the Constitution places authority over taxes and tariffs with Congress,” but for too long, it’s handed that authority to the executive branch, an argument that Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley made to farm reporters this week.
But a House vote to end the tariffs would also need to pass in the Senate and be signed by Trump, with a more likely scenario that the Supreme Court will have the final say on the fate of the president’s tariffs.
