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RINOs and LOLBerts give Dems a majority to stop Trump's All-American Tariffs.

Constitutional Text: Article I, Section 8 explicitly grants Congress the authority to regulate commerce and impose tariffs:

“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;”

“To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”

Tariffs are a form of duty or impost on imported goods, so this power belongs to Congress.

The president has no direct constitutional authority to impose tariffs on his own. However, Congress has delegated significant tariff-related powers to the president through various laws over the decades.

Today's Deep Question: Why Is Violent Crime Plummeting in the US?

And thus we come to the missing word. Axios never once mentions the word "immigration" in this analysis, despite it being the primary law enforcement effort by the federal government in 2025. It was the biggest change in law enforcement, wherein ICE and Border Patrol agents began aggressively enforcing detainers and deporting criminal illegal aliens, many of whom had connections to transnational crime organizations. That effort led to a mass outward migration of illegal aliens in 2025. In fact, 2025 saw an overall net loss in migration for the first time in decades, and not by just a handful either...

Given that the immigration enforcement efforts in the US have focused on criminal illegal aliens, and that this has prompted a net outward migration of tens of thousands of aliens, did it not occur to Axios that this might explain a sudden drop in crime across the US? It is, at least, a relevant factor, especially given that this enforcement effort appears to be the only significant policy shift that took place in the year when results shifted as dramatically as Axios reports. Its omission from their analysis is a stunning lacuna in their logic, while their claim that the crime decline somehow contradicts Trump can only exist in a bubble that locks out any of Trump's initiatives as potential contributing factors.

I'm all for Trump's tariffs, but Massie is right that it's a power the Constitution gives to Congress:

U.S. economy adds 130,000 jobs in January, exceeding expectations

Nonfarm payrolls last month came in at 130,000, well above economists’ estimates of 66,000 and up from a downwardly-revised mark of 48,000 in December. It was the strongest rise in positions since December 2024.

Job gains in healthcare, social assistance and construction helped to offset losses in federal government roles -- which analysts at Morgan Stanley said have been weighed down by deferred employee resignations.

I'm all for Trump's tariffs, but Massie is right that it's a power the Constitution gives to Congress:

https://apnews.com/live/trump-immigration-climate-change-2-12-2026

Apparently Trump announced on Truth social he wants to find a way to dump everything UNredacted

President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin formally terminated the Obama-era “endangerment finding”— a 2009 regulatory determination that carbon dioxide, methane, and four other greenhouse gases endanger public health. That simple finding cascaded into hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of rules, guidances, crimes, and other regulations.

EPA built the finding into a massive temple to the climate gods. Then last year, EPA Chief Zeldin made an unimaginable promise. He said he would “drive a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” We applauded the sentiment, but nobody believed he could pull it off. ...

Once CO2 was legally dangerous, the EPA could regulate basically anything that produces the common gas, like anything that burns fuel, moves, exhales, or farts. Cars, trucks, power plants, light bulbs, gas stoves— even backyard grills, if they felt like it. The EPA regulated reams of products, and would have eventually regulated cow ‘emissions,’ undersea volcanoes, and the hot air generated by Congress (which is by far the largest emitter on the planet).

That’s why revoking the “determination” didn’t just change a rule. It yanked the legal foundation out from under seventeen dreadful years of fantastically expensive and ever-expanding climate regulation. ...

The (new) EPA said the repeal will save Americans at least $1.3 trillion and roughly $2,400 per new vehicle.

Got a link? I can't find it at https://truthsocial.com/realDonaldTrump/

I wonder why this was allowed in first place

Tariffs will continue under a new statute, no change. SCOTUS only nixed one of the President's Tariff rationales. He's got at least 2 broad ones.

JFK was assassinated for many reasons.