U.S. House Speaker: The House will still "green light" Trump's global tariff plan.

On April 8, according to U.S. media Politico, U.S. House Speaker Johnson said on Monday that even if some Republican lawmakers publicly implore Trump to negotiate a way to remove the tariffs before they go into effect on Wednesday, the House of Representatives will still provide “space” for Trump to implement his large-scale global tariff regime. “We’ll give him the necessary space to implement the policy and then we’ll see how things play out,” Johnson said. The speaker went on to say that Trump is “actively engaged and trying to solve” the trade deficit. Opposition within the Republican Party came in the form of bipartisan legislation aimed at reclaiming congressional power over tariffs from the president. Previously, Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell and Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa introduced legislation that would limit the president’s power to impose tariffs unilaterally. U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, plans to introduce a House version of the legislation on Monday. Johnson on Monday refused to publicly promise that he would submit a revised Senate budget plan to the House for a vote this week amid strong opposition from a group of fiscal conservatives. However, some senior Republican aides said the current plan is still to hold a final vote on Wednesday afternoon, as originally planned.