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On January 20, 2017, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah introduced the Global Trade Accountability Act, a bill to subject presidential actions on trade to congressional approval.
“Congress has ceded far too much law making power to the Executive branch including the power to unilaterally raise tariffs,” Lee said in a statement released shortly after President Donald Trump’s first inauguration.
John McCormack is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was Washington correspondent at National Review and a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. When John is not reporting on politics and policy, he is probably enjoying life with his wife and daughters in northern Virginia or having fun visiting family in Wisconsin.
