> they need them for the tax cuts the GOP will legislate later this year.

They're also playing games where new time-limited tax cuts are counted as "costs" for their planned lifetime, but now, later, they're claiming renewing the same cuts costs nothing because they're already there. [0]

This is like a man with a mid-life crisis renting a fancy sports car saying "just one month is quite affordable", except next month he extends the lease, saying "this is fine, it's already in the budget so it doesn't cost us extra."

That matters because they're using this fake math to try to trigger special rules which let them pass budgets with fewer votes.

> The odd part is that Congress, at any time, can revoke these tariffs

Side note: Originally the law (IEEAP, 1977) [1] allowed Congress to revoke them with 50% of each house. But few years later the Supreme Court ruled that mechanism unconstitutional. This means it now requires a veto-proof supermajority of >66.6% in each house.

So yeah, with enough votes this could be done in a very short time-frame... but "enough" is such a big number that it requires most of the GOP to decide it doesn't want to destroy America after all.

[0] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/republicans-tax-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Emergency_Econom...