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Explain that for a second, because we get the cheap goods that result from those trade practices.
Yeah, Binya, you're reminding me that one of the few trade cases, trade investigations we saw before the Trump era was on, in fact, on Chinese solar panels.
But it was remarkable because it was so rare.
So many of Trump's tariffs, though, often had little to do with economics.
You know, he used them to punish countries for all sorts of things.
Will the court's ruling force a big reset in how Trump conducts his foreign policy?
What do you think?
Yeah, Emily, that's a really interesting point.
Do you imagine that lawmakers, that Congress will be a little bit warier about delegating this type of authority to the president in the future, or might even try to claw it back when perhaps the political winds have changed a bit?
We are already seeing some forms of, if ineffective, opposition in Congress, even among some Republicans on the tariffs issue.
You have resolutions passing the House, for example.
Some of the lawmakers who voted for some of these resolutions on tariffs are going to be hearing the president very soon on Tuesday at his State of the Union address.
What do you expect from the president in the State of the Union Tuesday night?
Binya, you've already previewed a little bit, or at least pre-butted a little bit of some of the arguments he might make about the power and benefits of tariffs to revive the domestic economy.
What do you think?
So how should Democrats respond to all of this?
You know, there's an argument out there that with the midterms coming up, all they have to do is put up some candidates with a pulse and let Trump beat himself.
Is that the strategy?
What do they say?
What do they do?