{"id":4980,"date":"2025-08-30T11:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4980"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:20:32","slug":"tariff-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/tariff-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariff This"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to work through the news that dropped late in the day on the Friday before Labor Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, everybody who&#8217;s anybody, was already off to the last summer hurrah  when the new dropped, so there&#8217;s not a lot written.  Searching The Fine Web yielded <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/how-congress-delegates-its-tariff-powers-to-the-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a>, which described what President Trump has been trying to do for most of the time since he retook office, but it doesn&#8217;t provide a lot of insight into what actually happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it does point to the larger issue &#8212; Congress has dispatched its responsibilities to the Executive Branch, and the President is doing whatever he wants at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, this isn&#8217;t just OrangeManBad.  It started much earlier than him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"OBAMA- I&#039;VE GOT A PEN AND A PHONE\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G6tOgF_w-yI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have the you-broke-it-you-bought-it attitude, but what&#8217;s where I am.  Am I going to be  sympathetic?  No, sorry.  You lost my sympathy long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do kind of hope this can be used as precedent other places where Congress has dispatched things to the Administration, but I&#8217;m not going to hold my breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress hasn&#8217;t passed a regular budget since 2013 (for Fiscal Year 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All they seem to be able to do is fundraise for their campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are there things that could be done to fix that?  Maybe, but all of them would require that Congress actually  pass laws to set things straight.  Again, I won&#8217;t  be holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to work through the news that dropped late in the day on the Friday before Labor Day. Obviously, everybody who&#8217;s anybody, was already off to the last summer hurrah when the new dropped, so there&#8217;s not a lot written. Searching The Fine Web yielded this, which described what President Trump has been trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}