New Democrat Introduces Bill to Clarify Emergency Powers and Tariffs
Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., introduced a bill that would amend the International Emergency Economic Powers Act so that it can't be used to impose tariffs. When President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports unless it stopped…
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Central American migration to the U.S., it was expected he would use the IEEPA statute to do so. In the past, IEEPA has only been used to impose sanctions, not tariffs. “Tariffs are not the appropriate tool to deal with the situation on the border, and IEEPA was never intended to be a mechanism for slapping tariffs on a foreign country, especially our allies," DelBene said in a press release June 27, the day the bill was introduced.