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Trump wanted to move faster after he returned to the White House in January. So he reached for the power to impose tariffs himself without waiting around. He turned to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977, arguing that the law allowed him to declare a national emergency and impose tariffs to address it.So in February he declared the
an emergency and used it to justify tariffs on. Then last month he declared America’s long-running trade deficits an emergency andAt least seven lawsuits are challenging his use of that power. And on Wednesday the
, ruling that he’d overstepped his authority.The emergency powers act, the
declared, did not allow the use of global tariffs. Moreover, it said, the tariffs did not address the problems the president had identified. The Trump administration has appealed the ruling, and a federal appeals court on Thursday allowed the government to continue collecting the IEEPA import taxes while the appeals continue.
Congress has made some motion toward reasserting its authority. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, for instance, have introduced legislation that would require presidents to justify new tariffs to Congress. Lawmakers would then have 60 days to approve the tariffs. Otherwise, they would expire.That approach has been the biggest flaw of the government’s response, said Dr. Carlos del Rio, past president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
“Imagine if the captain of the Titanic had told you that you need to be careful about lifeboats and think about other opportunities,” del Rio said.Trials were conducted on thousands of children before the vaccine was approved for use in the 1960s. The federal government has since used medical records to continue to monitor for side effects from use in millions of people since.
Health secretaries have typically delivered a clear message urging the public to get vaccinated during outbreaks, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, a former deputy director at the CDC who retired after 33 years at the agency in 2021.President Donald Trump and his first-term health secretary, Alex Azar, urged people to get shots during news conferences in 2019, when measles ripped through Brooklyn and infected more than 1,200 nationwide.