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The party would restore Congress's constitutional authority over tariffs and modernize customs and digital-trade rules for the e-commerce era and allied cooperation.
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
This fight runs within both parties, not between them, and the clearest evidence is the sponsor list on the one bill trying to fix it. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) sponsored the Trade Review Act, which carries thirteen cosponsors: seven Republicans, including Senate veterans Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Todd Young, and Jerry Moran, and six Democrats, Amy Klobuchar, Mark Warner, Michael Bennet, Chris Coons, Richard Blumenthal, and Peter Welch. The White House has threatened to veto it. That's an institutionalist coalition in both parties against a unilateral-executive-authority position that, on trade specifically, currently sits with the Republican administration alone. Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, are not a clean free-trade counterweight: some labor unions have welcomed the tariffs even as the DCCC campaigns against them ahead of the 2026 midterms, splitting the party's own message between its trade-skeptic labor base and its institutional case against unchecked executive power. The Innovation Party's delta is to side with the cross-partisan institutionalist coalition already assembled in the Trade Review Act, while adding the piece neither party's current trade fight touches at all: modernized customs enforcement technology and a negotiated-framework approach to digital trade, instead of leaving "harnessing technology for global cooperation" to mean nothing more specific than another chip fight.
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