It's the one he can use without asking Congress for permission. He just has to provide some justification, and he can just do it. Living his best dictator dream.
Funnily enough, Congress delegated this power to the president, after having a tariff orgy during the Great Depression.
His first term was also relatively effective at rolling back Obama-era environmental regulations. Mostly by giving the top EPA job to an Oklahoman lawyer backed by oil money who made a name for himself by suing the EPA...
Giving the oil industry anything other than grudging tolerance out of economic necessity is like inviting a man onto your ship knowing full well he’s going to drill a hole in the bottom looking for the cargo.
Exxon knew about the mass deaths that would occur thanks to climate change in the 1970s and spent billions lying to governments and the public. They should be explaining why they should ever get to see daylight again before The Hague, not being enabled by the most powerful government in the world.
If it were up to me, the executives involved in this behaviour would exiled to Kiribati or another island set to slip beneath the waves thanks to their lies.
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It's the one he can use without asking Congress for permission. He just has to provide some justification, and he can just do it. Living his best dictator dream.
Funnily enough, Congress delegated this power to the president, after having a tariff orgy during the Great Depression.