Trump’s Executive Powers: Tariffs, Energy and Manufacturing

Quite worried because it's true that Congress and the courts can't stop a determined president on foreign policy, but they can make him pay a political price.

But that only works if you capitulate to the political price.

What if you have a president who knows he doesn't have to because he doesn't need the Congress to save the United States?

And that isn't just true in terms of foreign policy.

Look at what the President has done with very little help from the Congress.

So what about the economy? With the exception of the big, beautiful bill, which President Trump miraculously rammed through in the first months of his second term, everything else he has done to rebuild the economic sovereignty of the United States has been done through the powers he already has.

Start with tariffs. Could a Democratic House stop that?

The question was put to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week.

What could a Democrat House genuinely prevent you and the President from accomplishing?

Well, I, I think, I think there's very little.

You know, I... You know, with, with, uh, the Democratic Congress, uh, you can see it from my hearings, there's a lot more noise than signal.

So, uh, look, we, we have very durable, uh, tariff, tariff authorities under, uh, Section 301 and 232.

And besides tariffs, which are like a silver bullet to the British imperial system, here are the rest of the executive tools the President is using, and some of his more recent actions, like ending the Green New Deal.

On September 14th, the EPA scrapped Biden's power plant carbon rules, and that comes on the heels of all the other decisions the President has made, like pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords and multiple other actions to gut the green agenda.

Then there's the Defense Production Act.

On October 22nd, President Trump declared refining essential to national defense and gave the Energy Department up to $150 million to restart an American refinery.

Then there's government credit. In the past two weeks alone, the Pentagon, the Agriculture Department, and the Export-Import Bank have committed nearly $4 billion to American pharmaceutical, power, and manufacturing plants.

And then there's the big one, foreign investments.

Trump's head of state deals have brought in $11.3 trillion in commitments by the White House count.

The cumulative impact of this is staggering in terms of the re-industrialization of the United States.

The White House tracks it on their website, and I've been tracking the announced new manufacturing initiatives since the President went on the campaign trail earlier this month.

This is what they've announced, and this is what it looks like.

This is the American system, executed by a president who is off the empire's foreign policy reservation and who fights from the standpoint of American principles and won't fall into the empire's trap of political pragmatism.

So even if they were to win, the Democrats could hold hearings, they could issue subpoenas, they can continue to fly to London and reassure Chatham House, but the tariffs are gonna stay in place, the refineries are gonna get built,

the investment will keep coming, and the loans will keep flowing.