Congress to Intervene If Trump Trade War Drags, Lawler Says (1)

Congress will likely exert more authority over US trade policy if the White House doesn’t demonstrate “significant progress” in the ongoing tariff negotiations with dozens of countries in the coming weeks, New York Republican Representative Mike Lawler says.

“If they can make significant progress over the next 30-plus days, then I think a lot of this will settle down,” Lawler said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “If this flares up again, then I think you would likely see Congress step in.”

Congress has largely ceded much of the tariff negotiations to President Donald Trump and his economic team, but ...