Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., reportedly said he is “a Republican and a supporter of President Donald Trump,” but said he has the votes in the Senate to strip the presidential authority on tariffs to give it to what Trump says is a do-nothing Congress.

Trump has frequently warned Congress about reducing the authority of the president and forcing America to do nothing as Congress has for decades – failing to balance free-and-fair foreign trade or rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in massive government spending that Paul himself is against.

“This resolution would undermine the administration’s efforts to address the unusual and extraordinary threats to national security and economic stability, posed by the conditions reflected in the large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficit,” the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget wrote in a memo hitting at Paul’s bipartisan legislation, Politico reported Monday.

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