Too Soon Congressman Bacon!
Catering to Fear Creates Bad Policies
Update: Here is a good break downtown of Liberation Day, but Ben Shapiro. https://rumble.com/v6rlrrt-ep.-2172-what-the-hell-happened-on-liberation-day.html
Also, Bacon apparently taking issue with some DOGE cuts https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/04/some-in-nebraskas-federal-delegation-push-back-on-nws-doge-cuts/
Congressman Bacon did not let ten seconds go by before he decided to put forth a bill to have Congress take over tariffs (https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/04/congress/don-bacon-tariff-powers-bill-00273307). Keep in mind, Congress is the reason the United States is such a mess in the first place, from dysfunctional, wasteful government programs to runaway spending. But perhaps Bacon is merely following Iowa US Senator Charles Grassley (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/more-us-senate-republicans-voice-support-congressional-oversight-tariffs-2025-04-04/).
Apparently, people forget what has happened after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2021 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_the_World_Trade_Organization). The impact resulted in what has been called China shock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_shock). China exports flooded the world. The Chinese economy would go from under 2 trillion dollars to over 18 trillion dollars.
On top of it, the calculation for the tariffs is weird (https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations). Quote with emphasis added: “Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners. This calculation assumes that persistent trade deficits are due to a combination of tariff and non-tariff factors that prevent trade from balancing. Tariffs work through direct reductions of imports.”
Keep an eye on the following images. The first plots national flags according to the size of the GDP on a map. The other lists how much countries have changed in GDP over the last 10 years.
Bacon should stay in his lane and learn how to drive his car. We have a 36 trillion dollar debt not because of a President but because of Congress. We have a drawn, quartered and gutted manufacturing sector because Congress has refused to look at what other countries are doing as far as tariffs and regulations. We have trillions in wasted, de frauded funds and corruption because Congress votes for it, we had DEI because Congress funded it, we have had a imploding education system because Congress funded DOEd, Congress is like some guy walking into a bar and saying this round and every round tonight is on me. Then at the end of the night blames the bar tended because he's got no money left. District 2 needs to do Nebraska and the country a favor and throw Don da con out.
Anyone with 2 brain cells ( Bacon has 1/2 of 1) knows that you cannot have a group of 435 people managing anything. Congress is proof of that. In fact running a business - government is a business - a criminal operation but still a business and have even 2 or 3 people run it. By the time a decision is made the time / opportunity has passed.
Congress does a terrible job of managing anything. Congress's job is to pass laws, the President's job is to execute those laws (i.e., manage things).
There is no realistic way for Congress to take over the function of the Executive branch and deliver any kind of reasonable performance of those duties.