# S.J.Res. 88 (119th): A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.

A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: appropriations. Category: corruption_stewardship. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: emergency_powers. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: foreign_policy. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: tariffs. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: trade_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 600: On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 88. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure concerns a prudential trade policy dispute about tariffs, which does not by itself involve direct moral evil. It also bears on whether an emergency declaration is being used to impose sweeping economic burdens without ordinary legislative checks, a real structural concern. Because it combines a prudential economic question with a concern about executive overreach, the polarity is mixed rather than good or evil.
Theological note: Scripture grounds rightful authority in God's ordering of civil power, which calls rulers to justice and restraint and treats the abuse of unchecked authority as a concern of general equity. Trade tariffs are a prudential economic matter, but the use of emergency declarations to impose broad economic measures raises a question about whether executive power is being exercised within lawful limits.

## Recorded votes

Roll 600: On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 88. Yea 51 · Nay 47 · Other 2.

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