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Senators question legality and consultation on emergency tariff order; USTR says staff held 200+ Hill meetings
Summary
Several senators pressed Ambassador Greer over the legal basis for the administration’s emergency tariff declaration and whether Congress received adequate consultation; Greer said USTR staff held more than 200 engagements with Hill offices in recent weeks but senators pressed for formal, written consultation and raised constitutional concerns.
A central line of questioning at the Senate Finance Committee hearing focused on the Trump administration’s legal basis for using emergency trade authority to impose broad reciprocal tariffs and on whether Congress had been adequately consulted.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the president’s steps were being taken without sufficient…
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