{"id":462082,"date":"2026-02-11T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462082\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:43:12","slug":"three-house-republicans-cross-party-lines-to-block-effort-to-shield-trump-from-challenges-to-his-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462082\/","title":{"rendered":"Three House Republicans cross party lines to block effort to shield Trump from challenges to his tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlhgq1gw003026qdhkex36rn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Speaker Mike Johnson failed to reinstate a ban on lawmakers\u2019 ability to challenge President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs when three Republicans crossed party lines to vote with Democrats.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlhgq1j0000026qdfbfy8eyy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The House sank a procedural vote on Tuesday that contained language blocking votes in the chamber that object to Trump\u2019s tariffs through July. The move opens the door for Democrats to move forward with forcing votes to repeal Trump\u2019s tariffs, in a blow to the administration.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlhgq1j0000126qd52qy5451@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            With razor-thin margins in the House, three Republicans \u2013 GOP Reps. Thomas Massie, Don Bacon and Kevin Kiley \u2013 were enough to sink the vote. Johnson can only afford to lose one Republican vote to advance legislation with his current margin.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlhgq1j0000326qddczicfhj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Senate has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/30\/politics\/trump-global-tariffs-senate-rebuke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed at least three resolutions<\/a> rebuking Trump\u2019s tariffs, but routinely ran into resistance in the House where members were blocked from forcing votes on the matter.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlhgs8b100043b6r0f27612e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Bacon <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepDonBacon\/status\/2021418451911295376?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said in a statement posted to X<\/a>, \u201cI don\u2019t like putting the important work of the House on pause, but Congress needs to be able to debate on tariffs.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlhh48po000f3b6r2cjwzvni@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Nebraska congressman went on to say, \u201ctariffs have been a \u2018net negative\u2019 for the economy and are a significant tax that American consumers, manufacturers, and farmers are paying. Article I of the Constitution places authority over taxes and tariffs with Congress for a reason, but for too long, we have handed that authority to the executive branch. It\u2019s time for Congress to reclaim that responsibility.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlhgq4ly00003b6rn7yspise@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            GOP leaders had argued that lawmakers should allow the Supreme Court time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/28\/politics\/where-is-supreme-court-ruling-on-trump-tariffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weigh in.<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlhh34ix000c3b6rorxx3kx3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Speaker Johnson acknowledged the challenges he faces holding together his razor-thin majority after the failed vote.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlhhhxyy000o3b6rrspy79h2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cLook, this is life with a small majority. I mean, you know, I need unanimity every day, and we didn\u2019t get it tonight,\u201d he told reporters.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlhhhxyz000p3b6rbay08nkh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n             \u201cThe vast majority of the House Republicans agree wholeheartedly with the president, and we\u2019re going to give him the latitude to continue his trade policy,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaker Mike Johnson failed to reinstate a ban on lawmakers\u2019 ability to challenge President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-462082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}