Sen. Ted Cruz has begged President Donald Trump to stop listening to the tariff hawks in his administration and “take the deal” countries are offering to lower trade barriers.
Sen. Ted Cruz has begged President Donald Trump to stop listening to the tariff hawks in his administration and “take the deal” countries are offering to lower trade barriers.
Sure. With a majority in two houses and a signature from the President. Or a supermajority, in the event they need to override a veto.
A big part of the problem is that Cruz’s allies still think the tariffs are a good idea. Or, at least, they think their political futures are predicated on supporting Trump’s tariffs, because Trump commands the party middle-management that guarantees them their elevated positions. They won’t take away Trump’s authority, because it doesn’t benefit them to do so.
This isn’t strictly a Trump problem. It is the problem of governing a nation of 330M people with a captured cartel of 438 cronies of business goons.
I don’t disagree, but Cruz is being disingenuous that he doesn’t have a pathway. He could introduce legislation removing trump’s tariff powers. Even if it doesn’t pass, he could still force his colleagues to vote on the record to keep the tariffs in place.
Individually, he’s got as much say as Bernie Sanders or Cory Booker.
He didn’t even have to do that much. Just sign on to existing legislation. Cruz chickened out on that vote and left the Kentucky Chucklefucks, Collins, and Murkowski to do the heavy lifting. But it’s DOA in the House, so even this seems perfunctory.
Dude’s a total slimeball and a deceitful POS, without a doubt. But with Schumer rolling over on general spending bills, he’s not even the first Senator in the line of people I’m angry at.