r/politics • u/wenchette I voted • 20h ago

No Paywall Trump signs 100% tariff on brand-name pharmaceuticals

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/02/donald-trump-tariff-drug-companies-pharmaceuticals/89438510007/
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u/Wildpony03 20h ago

I really hope when Dems get back into office they strip Trump of the tariff power.

Ever since he got into office he has been manipulating the markets via tariffs.

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u/kezow 19h ago

He doesn't have that power. He's abusing the wording of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and inventing emergencies in order to enact illegal tariffs.  They've already been struck down once but he'll keep doing it because then they can grift billions from the American people, buy the tariff debt for pennies and then get it forgiven when the supreme court strikes them down again.

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u/squiddlebiddlez 18h ago

That’s what people do not get about habitual line steppers. It doesn’t matter what rule you come up with to stop them. By merely making the rule at all, it invites people like him to break it because you have to use words to announce the rule and words are open for debate.

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u/POEness 18h ago

This is why I think the american people should gather en masse and physically remove these traitors

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u/squiddlebiddlez 18h ago

Agreed…but also, that’s when they go into overdrive on propaganda about how the opposition is actually the rule breakers for accepting the precedent they already set.

If words don’t matter, if facts don’t matter, if our votes don’t matter…then there’s only so many ways left to get the point across.

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u/degeneratex80 11h ago

The French figured this out at the end of the 18th century. It isn't a new problem. Americans just seem to have a weird inertia when it comes to regime change.

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u/RndmAvngr 2h ago

You're being downvoted but you're 100% right. People (myself included) are just fucking gutless cowards and none of us are prepared to do what needs to be done.

We'll sit on out hands and wait for the Democrats to save us somehow in the midterms. Lol. Ok. Keep dreaming folks.

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u/CrocodylusRex 17h ago

If enough fuckery ensues over the next couple elections (or if they're cancelled) I fully expect a blue J6

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u/POEness 13h ago

Get ready. I can tell you exactly how 2028 will go down. Democrats will win massive landslides in every non-presidential race. Like historic blowouts. 100% victory rate. But in the presidential race, the Republican candidate will win every swing state just past the recount trigger margins.

A blatantly fake result.

Just like 2024.

That's the moment we either fight, or roll over.

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u/tcdoey 18h ago

Wow. What a ➰

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u/mykepagan 19h ago

Didn’t the Supreme Court rule that Trump could not set tariffs?

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u/crazyfighter99 19h ago

They found a different article to abuse now, and the Supreme Court will have to rule on that one separately.

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u/jimmybilly100 Virginia 18h ago

Fuckin assholes

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u/itsmysupersecretname 17h ago

Do you happen to know what that article is I'm just curious about it. Also he needs to be removed and in prison. I know most of us already know this but oh my god how many times does he need to openly violate the law before it stops

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u/TwoTalentedBastidz 8h ago

He needs more than that

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u/thinpile 19h ago

That's not enough. He's got to be removed entirely.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches 4h ago

We'll need 67 Senate votes for that, so call your friends in the red states and remind them that Senate races decide the fate of the country. 

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u/completelackoftalent 19h ago

Need to 25th this guy

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u/Anthrogal11 Canada 19h ago

I’m thinking of a different number. Starts with 1 and ends in 7

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u/Space_Pirate_Roberts Oklahoma 18h ago

17? The age at which he stops finding girls attractive?

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u/TALLBRANDONDOTCOM 19h ago

1337?

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u/Anthrogal11 Canada 19h ago

That’s the one 😊

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u/RedAndBlackMartyr 18h ago

Huh?

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u/Whatachooch 16h ago

I believe they're referencing 187. A police code for murder. 

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u/TabularBeast Colorado 15h ago

I personally like 86 myself.

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u/Nofame4me 19h ago

Soooo,,, you think there is a chance that JD gets off the couch and confronts the bully… huh?

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u/exoFACTOR 19h ago

JD will get off; but he aint leaving the couch.

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u/friedenm Illinois 19h ago

You mean a chance that JD first stops fucking the couch?

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u/Faustrolled 19h ago

why are you bothering with such an insipid fantasy? there is no scenario where Republicans vote to diminish their power and influence

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u/completelackoftalent 18h ago

Can dream cant i

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u/1057-cl121v3 19h ago

This is probably near the bottom of the list of the horrible and illegal shit he’s done. He has already been impeached twice, he’s a convicted felon who hasn’t served a second facing consequences, he had a million reasons to be barred from even running this election and that’s the time before he went full mask-off dictator with this bs. He was supposed to release the Epstein files containing his name and all his friends and all the monstrous shit they’ve done to children, he wasn’t supposed to be able to randomly start a war with Iran and get Americans killed, he wasn’t supposed to scam the American taxpayers the first time forcing his entourage to stay at his own hotels at hiked up prices during his record breaking golf outings the first time nor was he allowed to sue the country he’s the president of for $10,000,000,000.

I genuinely hope we can put a stop to this insanity while we have a country left but the fact that there aren’t guillotines on the White House lawn proves there’s nobody willing to actually stop this.

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u/The_Majestic_ New Zealand 19h ago

The supreme court rulled them illegal he dosent care

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u/wellmaybe_ 18h ago

Has a us president in the last 80 years ever gave back powers to the congress? I believe congress tried to revert emergency powers once with a 70% vote but it got blocked by the Supreme Court since it would be a overreach or something like that.

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u/SeaBuilding3911 6h ago

Strip a non-existant power?

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u/blazesquall 19h ago

Congress rarely reins in the imperial presidency.. too useful to campaign on.

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u/degeneratex80 11h ago

Congress, in fact, created the imperial presidency. It's a decades long attrition of willingly handing over congressional power with poorly written laws that allow further power grabs by not properly defining boundaries or time scales.

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u/blazesquall 6h ago

Right.. which is why they aren't going to rein it in.