Didn’t the funding bill a couple of weeks ago give Trump more tariff power? Why didn’t this guy speak up sooner?

Oh no, giving one person nearly unlimited power is a problem, if only we’d have seen that as an issue sooner. Not like fuck face has ever said he will do these things.

This guy is in a vulnerable district:

With a Cook Partisan Voting Index (CPVI) rating of EVEN, the district is the least Republican of the congressional districts in Nebraska.[Wikipedia]

Republicans don’t say things like this without permission from the Party. He gets to say this to protect his seat. He’ll likely still vote in lock-step with Republicans unless they get a bigger majority.

Yeah, you guys made a lot of mistakes. How about you take your thumbs out of your asses, say fuck it to partisanship, and vote your fucking conscious instead of just rubber stamping what your cheeto tells you to do.

If you all stand up to the guy all his power is gone. He only has power over your party because you all give it to him. The nation is only dysfunctional because you just carte blanch vote down anything that isn’t created and edited by your party even if it’s the best thing for your constituents.

I’m afraid congress no longer has any power Mr Bacon.

In the past we gave our power to set tariffs to Trump temporarily

That was less than a month ago, doofus. Also Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is right there, go talk to him. If you need to fix the mistakes, he’s your guy.

our current administration is a fucking amateur hour

There were many mistakes made along the way: making the office too powerful, eliminating all checks and balances, and making congress so contentious and useless that making the executive too powerful seemed necessary to accomplish anything.

However, ultimately handing the keys over to a fucking brain-dead, business-garbage pile in a suit at a time where so many powers have been concentrated in the executive because he “owns the libs” and makes the spiciest AI slop memes on truth social between bits of all-caps screed was the worst of those mistakes.

You didn’t just make a mistake, you are mistake. And a really good argument for post-birth abortion.

Afaik the presidential powers to enact tariffs is limited. Congress is in charge of the budget and are the only ones allowed to set permanent tariffs. He is only getting away with what he is doing because he keeps making up phony emergency reasons why we need them, i.e. the bogus Canadian fentanyl story. The idiots in Congress have already given up so many of their duties to the executive branch it’s doubtful they can recapture them. Until members of Congress decide to call him out on his bullshit he will keep getting away with it despite what any of them say publicly… And we all know that his boot lickers will never do that.

I get it, you couldn’t possibly imagine he’d do something stupid and harmful with the powers you’ve given him. I mean, all the signs were there but they were hard to see if you didn’t look at them. Anyone could have made that mistake.

Perhaps Don Bacon is feeling the heat from his constituents, and is afraid that if he didn’t say something his career would be cooked.

He might attract a primary challenge, but that’s just like jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I bet he’s gonna stuff a lot of pork into his next bill, though.

Western Nebraska turning against Trump? Everything old truly is new again.

Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Don Bacon, are reconsidering Trump’s tariff authority, citing economic uncertainty and potential backlash over rising consumer prices.

In other words, he still believes there will be midterm elections next year, and voters might remember that everything went down the drain due to Donny.

I’m NOT in a Cult but Don Bacon is a RINO for even SUGGESTING Trump NOT being Right about Something!