SJRES 88 — Congress 119
A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.
Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/88
Congress.gov subjects: Congressional oversight; Legislative rules and procedure; Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents; Tariffs; Foreign Trade and International Finance
Issues impacted: Taxes & Government Spending (ai, high), Foreign Policy & Sanctions (ai, high), Regulation & Agency Oversight (ai, high)
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119 SJ 88 IS: Terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs. U.S. Senate 2025-10-07 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. J. RES. 88 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES October 7, 2025 Mr. Wyden (for himself, Mr. Paul , Mr. Schumer , Mr. Kaine , Mrs. Shaheen , Mr. Welch , and Ms. Warren ) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance JOINT RESOLUTION Terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs. That, pursuant to section 202 of the National Emergencies Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1622 ), the national emergency declared on April 2, 2025, by the President in Executive Order 14257 (90 Fed. Reg. 15041) is terminated effective on the date of the enactment of this joint resolution.
Plain-English summary
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This joint resolution is Congress’s way of flipping the off switch on a presidential national emergency—and the worldwide tariffs that came with it.
Back on April 2, 2025, the President used an executive order to declare a national emergency so the government could slap broad tariffs (those are taxes on stuff coming into the country) on imports from around the globe. Under the National Emergencies Act—the law that lets Congress end emergencies the President starts—this measure would kill that emergency the day it becomes law. No more emergency, no more of those particular tariffs riding on it.
Importers, stores, and regular shoppers could feel it if those extra border taxes disappear. So could trading partners and anyone whose prices or supply chains got tangled up in them. The bill doesn’t rewrite the permanent trade rulebook; it just unplugs this one emergency hook.
It’s a straight up-or-down call on whether that emergency and its tariffs should keep going.
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| Issue | Yea advances | Nay advances | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxes & Government Spending | Lower taxes and constrain spending growth | Status quo / reject this change | Yea ends the emergency-based global import tariffs (a tax on goods); Nay keeps that tariff regime in place. |
| Foreign Policy & Sanctions | Engagement, diplomacy, and conditioned aid | Sanctions and coercive pressure | Yea lifts emergency global tariffs as a coercive trade tool; Nay leaves the tariff emergency in force as pressure on foreign commerce. |
| Regulation & Agency Oversight | Disapprove or nullify agency rules | Preserve agency rules and standards | Yea uses the National Emergencies Act to terminate the President’s emergency declaration; Nay leaves that emergency authority and its effects standing. |