President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk on the South Lawn to the White House after arriving on Marine One Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
Here are three cheers for the six House Republicans who voted with nearly all Democrats to repeal President Trump’s tariffs against Canada. They bucked their party and their leadership, and especially Trump, to do the right thing.
The shame isn’t that the six voted with Democrats, but that no other Republicans joined them.
The six Republicans — Reps. Don Bacon (Neb.), Kevin Kiley (Calif.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Jeff Hurd (Colo.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) and Dan Newhouse (Wash.) — get their first cheer for reasserting the Constitution’s provision that the power to impose taxes belongs to Congress. According to Article 1, Section 8, “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.”
I say “reassert” because members of Congress from both parties have gradually ceded much of their constitutional responsibility to the president or bureaucrats.
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