{"id":1637,"date":"2026-02-10T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:43:48","slug":"mike-johnson-readies-new-ban-on-tariff-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1637","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson readies new ban on tariff votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Johnson readies new ban on tariff votes. <\/strong>The House of Representatives is expected to vote on a renewal of its self-imposed ban on members requesting floor votes on President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R\u2013La.) told reporters on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/09\/congress\/johnson-moves-to-again-block-house-from-voting-on-trump-tariffs-00772559\">per<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The rule the House will vote on would ban members from bringing resolutions challenging Trump&#8217;s tariffs through August.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gf_browser_unknown gform_wrapper gform-theme gform-theme--foundation gform-theme--framework gform-theme--orbital incontent-email-signup_wrapper\" data-form-theme=\"orbital\" data-form-index=\"0\" id=\"gform_wrapper_26\">\n<div class=\"gform_heading\">\n<p class=\"gform_description\"><strong>The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe<\/strong> Liz and <i>Reason<\/i> help you make sense of the day&#8217;s news every morning.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t                <iframe style=\"display:none;width:0px;height:0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/02\/10\/tariff-ied\/about:blank\" name=\"gform_ajax_frame_26\" id=\"gform_ajax_frame_26\" title=\"This iframe contains the logic required to handle Ajax powered Gravity Forms.\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The vote will be close.<em> Punchbowl News <\/em>reports that a handful of Republicans have already said <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/article\/house\/johnson-tariff-rebellion\/\">they&#8217;ll vote against it<\/a>. But Johnson is committed to passing the tariff vote ban, and the White House is reportedly exerting a lot of pressure on individual members to support it as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has controversially asserted its unilateral power to set global tariff rates through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Last November, the U.S. Supreme Court <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/07\/trumps-lawyer-at-the-supreme-court-cites-a-letter-from-james-madison-that-says-tariffs-are-taxes\/\">heard oral arguments<\/a> in a case that might see it rule against the administration&#8217;s power to levy taxes all on its own.<\/p>\n<p>While the country anxiously awaits that decision, Trump continues to threaten tariffs on everybody for any reason. Recently, he announced, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/economy\/trump-pauses-greenland-tariffs-rcna255270\">then paused<\/a>, tariffs on European countries for opposing the United States&#8217; efforts to acquire Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Congress could create a little additional trade regime certainty by voting to block Trump&#8217;s tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>But, as <em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s Eric Boehm has covered, Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/01\/21\/mike-johnson-says-he-has-no-intention-of-letting-congress-vote-on-trumps-tariffs\/\">has repeatedly<\/a> said he&#8217;s completely uninterested in Congress retaking its constitutional role in setting tariff and tax rates.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it&#8217;s easier to let the president and the courts sort it out.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Immigration court stops deportation of student for anti-Israel speech: <\/strong>An immigration court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/law\/immigration-court-drops-case-against-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-72033590?mod=e2tw\">has dismissed<\/a> a case against Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, saying that the Department of Homeland Security couldn&#8217;t prove the Turkish national needed to be removed from the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ozturk made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/law\/tufts-graduate-student-detained-by-federal-immigration-authorities-42d57a0a?mod=article_inline\">national news<\/a> when she was arrested on the street by masked federal agents near her home in Somerville,\u00a0Massachusetts, after the Trump administration revoked her student visa because of an anti-Israel op-ed she&#8217;d co-written a year prior. She spent the next month being shuttled between detention facilities before a judge in Vermont eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/09\/judge-orders-tufts-grad-student-rumeysa-ozturk-be-released-on-bail-from-immigration-detention\/\">ordered her release<\/a> in early May.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration made no secret of the fact that it wanted to deport Ozturk because of her anti-Israel speech.<\/p>\n<p>The initial State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/30\/rumeysa-ozturks-op-ed-is-still-the-only-public-justification-for-her-arrest\/\">memo<\/a> justifying the revocation of Ozturk&#8217;s student visa said she was &#8220;involved in associations that &#8216;may undermine U.S. foreign policy by creating a hostile environment for Jewish students and indicating support for a designated terrorist organization,&#8217; including [co-authoring] an op-ed that found common cause with an organization that was later temporarily banned from campus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration attempted to deport a number of foreign students for their anti-Israel activism over the course of the last year.<\/p>\n<p>That effort was met with <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/22\/defending-its-speech-based-deportation-policy-the-trump-administration-says-no-such-policy-exists\/\">concerted opposition<\/a> and lawsuits from the affected students and free speech advocates, who argued that the First Amendment restricts the government from punishing the protected speech of immigrants and citizens alike.<\/p>\n<p>The courts have generally, although not exclusively, ruled <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/10\/01\/reagan-appointed-judge-slams-trumps-crackdown-on-pro-palestinian-students\/\">in favor<\/a> of the targeted students.<\/p>\n<p>In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/mahmoud-khalil-sipa-24-will-be-rearrested-and-deported-to-algeria-dhs-says\/\">an appeals court overturned<\/a> a lower court decision that had released Columbia student activist Mahmoud Khalil from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention. Khalil remains a free man for the time being, although the Trump administration continues to assert its right to arrest and deport him to Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that despite the justice system&#8217;s flaws, my case may give hope to those who have also been wronged by the U.S. government,&#8221; Ozturk said Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/law\/immigration-court-drops-case-against-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-72033590?mod=e2tw\">reports<\/a> <em>The<\/em> <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><em>Scenes from D.C.: <\/em><\/strong>Buddhist monks&#8217; 2,300-mile &#8220;Walk for Peace&#8221; from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/2026\/02\/buddhist-monks-walk-for-peace-arrives-at-the-washington-national-cathedral-tuesday\/#more-338297\">will end today<\/a> when the monks arrive at the city&#8217;s National Cathedral. They come in just in time for some welcome, balmy 40-degree temperatures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Buddhist monks&#8217; Walk for Peace arrives at the Washington National Cathedral Tomorrow: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nn2RdN2xP9\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nn2RdN2xP9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PoPville (@PoPville) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoPville\/status\/2020960463203467576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>QUICK LINKS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The New York Times\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/08\/opinion\/trump-nixon-watergate-radford.html\">reports<\/a> on the release of heretofore classified pages of Richard Nixon&#8217;s grand jury testimony, in which he discussed the Pentagon&#8217;s efforts to spy on his National Security Council.<\/li>\n<li>A Democratic New Jersey House candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/10\/congressional-candidate-made-no-negativity-pledge-after-failing-to-get-help-finding-dirt-on-rival-00771175?utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it\">who&#8217;d promised<\/a> &#8220;no negativity&#8221; tried to dig up dirt on his opponents, reports\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>A federal judge partially blocked a California law that bans federal officers from wearing masks, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-mask-ban-ice-agents-lawsuit-715a24629f112ca3f12b0b619461dc60\">reports<\/a> the Associated Press. Judge Christina Snyder&#8217;s ruling said that because California&#8217;s law did not apply to state law enforcement officials, it unfairly discriminated against the federal government. Snyder upheld part of the law that requires federal agents to display identification.<\/li>\n<li>The Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/trump-to-repeal-landmark-climate-finding-in-huge-regulatory-rollback-ff7d58db?st=yGmEvt\">says that it will repeal<\/a> a major federal rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions.<\/li>\n<li>There was a little bit of discourse on X last evening about how to rank the 21st century presidential administrations from a libertarian perspective. It&#8217;s a tough one because they&#8217;ve all been so bad, but here&#8217;s my ranking, from relative best to worst. It&#8217;s possible the second Trump administration will end up being the worst of the bunch, but it&#8217;ll take a lot to do something worse than the Iraq War.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1. Trump-Pence<br \/>2. Obama<br \/>3. Biden<br \/>4. Trump-Vance <br \/>5. Bush<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christian Britschgi (@christianbrits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christianbrits\/status\/2021036997478166995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Bad Bunny&#8217;s Super Bowl halftime performance did not include an explicit denunciation of the Jones Act, but it&#8217;s nice to think that it did.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yall probably don&#8217;t know this because it was all in Spanish, but the entire halftime show was actually an anti Jones Act protest piece.<\/p>\n<p>Repeal the Jones Act! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dQlaQZWT24\">pic.twitter.com\/dQlaQZWT24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YIMBYLAND (@YIMBYLAND) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YIMBYLAND\/status\/2020858967291838834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They should gamify education by giving regular challenges and tests of skill and assigning points based on how you do<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel (@growing_daniel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/growing_daniel\/status\/2021051427033055676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/02\/10\/tariff-ied\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson readies new ban on tariff votes. 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