Tuesday’s vote modified how the House will count calendar days for the remainder of 2025, effectively preventing such a vote from occurring this year.
“The international emergency economic powers have not been used before to impose tariffs, and many members want to have a chance to weigh in,” Greta Peisch, former general counsel to the U.S. Trade Representative, told Reuters. “Without a fast – track voting process, they are unlikely to have an opportunity to do so.”
But Trump administration officials have pushed back on the Democrat and media narratives that Trump’s tariffs will create a “recession.”
On Sunday, Kristin Welker, the anchor of NBC’s “Meet The Press,” asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick directly if Americans “should brace for a recession.”
“Absolutely not. Anybody who bets against Donald Trump — it’s like the same people who thought Donald Trump wasn’t a winner a year ago,” he replied. “Donald Trump is a winner. He’s going to win for the American people. That’s just the way it’s going to be. There’s going to be no recession in America.
“What there’s going to be is global tariffs are going to come down because President Trump has said, ‘You want to charge us 100%? We’re going to charge you 100%.’ You know what they say? They say, ‘No, no, no, no, no, don’t charge us 100%. We’ll bring ours down,’” Lutnick continued.
“We’ll unleash America out to the world. Grow our economy in a way we’ve never grown before,” he added. “You are going to see over the next two years the greatest set of growth coming from America as Americans. You saw it, 1.3 trillion of new investment coming into America that – think of all those jobs, and remember, each trillion of investment in America is 1% of growth GDP.
“So, Donald Trump is bringing growth to America. I would never bet on recession. No chance,” he concluded.