The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

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This is John Batchel, a conversation with Philip Wallach,

writing at the Civitas Institute about the history of tariffs,

the Congress, and the presidency.

It didn't start with Trump.

It started with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Congress giving those presidents the power to say yay or nay over a particular deal.

This was during the Napoleonic era.

It turns out that FDR is the man most resembling Mr. Trump at this present,

because Congress gave him the power to say yay or nay and to do deals and break deals and

correct deals and change direction for deals.

This is in the 1934 Act. Congress wanted FDR to take charge.

Well, FDR and Donald Trump, I'm sure that historians will find something else in common,

but right now what I've found is they both wielded the tariff power because Congress,

where it always was understood to belong,

step back and said, here, you take it. We've got too many contradictions.

Philip Wallach, writing at Civitas Institute. Philip is at the AEI, his book, Why Congress

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