House Republicans are unveiling a new bill to clear a path for President Donald Trump to enact his sweeping tariff plans.
First-term Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., is reintroducing the U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act on Friday, which, if passed, would allow Trump to unilaterally make moves on import taxes from both adversaries and allies.
He would be required to notify Congress, however, which could file a joint resolution of disapproval against the moves.
“American manufacturing has endured decades of decline under the globalist system that has hollowed out our industrial base and shipped countless jobs overseas. Leaders in both political parties deserve blame. But those days are over,” Moore said in a statement.
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President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Getty)
Moore said Trump was “the first national politician in my lifetime to recognize this problem, campaign on it, and work to reverse that trend.”
“With the U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act, we’ll give the executive the leverage necessary to go to bat for the American people and achieve tariff reductions on U.S. goods,” he said.
Trump released a campaign video in 2023 pledging to work with Congress to pass the Reciprocal Trade Act, declaring, “Under the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, other countries will have two choices—they’ll get rid of their tariffs on us, or they will pay us hundreds of billions of dollars, and the United States will make an absolute FORTUNE.”
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Rep. Riley Moore is leading a bill to authorize President Donald Trump to carry out his tariff plans. (Office of Rep. Riley Moore)
This week, the president announced that he wanted to impose a 10% tariff on Chinese imports, making good on a campaign promise to use such taxes to lower the U.S. national debt, which is currently over $36 trillion.
“We’re talking about a tariff of 10% on China, based on the fact that they’re sending fentanyl to Mexico and Canada,” Trump said Tuesday. “Probably February 1st is the date we’re looking at.”
During his campaign, Trump promised to levy a 60% tariff on goods from China and as much as 20% on other countries the U.S. trades with.
He also recently pledged on Truth Social to create an “External Revenue Service” to “collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources.”
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