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President Donald Trump is threatening to use the emergency authority granted by a powerful but obscure federal law to make good on his tweeted order to U.S. businesses to cut ties in China amid a spiraling trade war between the two nations.
Trump on Twitter declared American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China. He later clarified that he was threatening to make use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in the trade war, raising questions about the wisdom and propriety of making the 1977 act used to target rogue regimes, terrorists and drug traffickers the newest weapon in the clash between the worlds largest economies.
It would mark the latest grasp of authority by Trump, who has claimed widespread powers not sought by his predecessors despite his own past criticism of their use of executive powers.
For all of the Fake News Reporters that dont have a clue as to what the law is relative to Presidential powers, China, etc., try looking at the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, Trump tweeted late Friday. Case closed! The act gives presidents wide berth in regulating international commerce during times of declared national emergencies. It was not immediately clear how Trump could use the act to force American businesses to move their manufacturing out of China and to the U.S, and Trumps threat appeared premature as he has not declared an emergency with respect to China.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/be18b8619cde4658a418dda4f416968a
Turbineguy
(37,345 posts)That's for sure.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)he's got people working overtime (without pay, of course) looking up any possible obscure power of the Executive branch. And he knows he's got the Judicial branch by the short hairs when the lawsuits begin.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)There is no way this ignoramus managed to dig this up on his own. He barely knows what the basic duties of his role are. Is Stephen Miller behind this?
bitterross
(4,066 posts)WAAAAAY! Past time for impeachment.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The celebrated heavy manufacturing jobs (appliance manufacture, vehicle manufacture, steel manufacture) he claims will come back are highly automated now, the companies that don't automate have failed or are failing.
Trueblue Texan
(2,430 posts)Why else would he have done half the crap hes done that has taken the US down the tubes? Its been very good for those dictators who want the US to fail.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Business has always looked down on democrats, even as democrats have proven by far to be best for the economy.
Now with Trump hitting business in the face with a wad of shit almost daily, democrats can now say to business "You now see what true chaos can be like, now this is what we are going to have you do if you want us to save your asses again". We may actually see business really caring about the futures of their workers.
mopinko
(70,135 posts)are fucking legal in the first place.
i see no national security threat that includes iphone and cheap toys and clothes.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Still have not upgraded from my iphone 6
Takket
(21,578 posts)if he's so worried about it?
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)sitting in the White House).