On the same day he announced the tariffs, Trump declared “that foreign trade and economic practices have created a national emergency.” Let’s be very clear here: tariffs are revenue measures, and the U.S. Constitution explicitly gives the power to raise revenue to Congress, not the president. The Trump administration is claiming the powers of Congress both to tax and to declare war, key powers the Framers established the American people’s right, through their representatives, to control. In that law, Congress specified that any commemorative work within Area I requires Congress to pass a law authorizing the memorial. When a reporter asked who the arch was for, Trump pointed at himself and said: “Me.”