On Monday (April 7), the White House issued a sharp warning against the Bipartisan Act on the Senate, which seeks to reduce the power of President Donald Trump unilaterally imposing tariffs, threatening the veto and provoking legislation of the threat to national security and executive power.
The bill, known as the Act on Trade Review of 2025, was presented by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) And Chuck Grassley (R -iwa) and attracted the support of Republicans and Democrats, including six other Republican senators.
Bill is looking for congress supervision over tariffs
If the bill required the President to announce the congress within 48 hours of the deposit of new tariffs and include justification together with the analysis of their impact on US companies and consumers. Congress would then have 60 days to approve tariffs. If you do not do so, they would cause their expiration automatically.
Supporters claim that this restores the balance between executive and legislative sectors of business policy. However, the White House claims to be a “procedural micromanage”.
White House: Bill will be “dangerously prevented” of security safety
In its statement, the Office for Administration and Budget of the White House (OMB) stated that the bill “seriously limits the ability of the President to use the bodies long recognized by congress and adhere to the courts to respond to national emergencies and foreign threats”.
The OMB added that the proposed supervision would “eliminate the leverage over foreign business partners, prevent the resistance and resistance of the supply chain, promoted market uncertainty, and reduce the energy and submission that the president requires to effectively guarantee the security of the nation”.
“If this bill was released, it would dangerously prevent the president’s powers and obligations to determine our foreign policy and protect our national security,” the statement warned.
The threat of a veto increases the bar to pass
The threat of the white house veto means that the bill now will need a two-thirds majority in the Republican-controlled house and the Senate to become the law-page climb, namely IS Bipartisan support.
GOP senators resist Trump’s business forces
Republicans who support the bill include the leader of the minorities of the Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Todd Young (R-Ind.), Resolving increasing discomfort in the aggressive use of Trump’s business restriction.
The proposed legislation signals the renewed efforts of congress to promote its constitutional role in shaping the US business policy, which concerns that the current approach lacks transparency and responsibility.
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