Congress’s Rejection of Trump’s Canada “Emergency” Is a Welcome—but Woefully Insufficient—Move

Alfredo Carrillo Obregon and Scott Lincicome

The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday night (February 11) to terminate the national emergency declared by President Trump last year with respect to the flow of illegal narcotics from Canada, which he then used to justify imposing tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) on Canadian imports. The resolution now heads to the Senate, which passed similar resolutions last April and October, rejecting the...