House GOP Races to Cool Dissent as Trump Tariff Anxiety Surfaces

Anxiety within the Republican ranks over Donald Trump’s trade policies bubbled to the surface on the House floor this week when a small group of lawmakers pushed back on the president’s signature foreign economic policy and sought a bigger say in how tariff levels are set.

The dissent was short-lived but it showed intra-party fractures on tariffs, the economic effects of which threaten to become a central issue in next year’s mid-term elections.

While Congress holds legal authority over the duties, Trump has managed to unilaterally issue tariffs across dozens of trading partners through emergency actions, assisted by House ...