During an Axios event this morning (4/30), Speaker Mike Johnson told Axios’ Hans Nichols that he’d call President Trump before stepping in if he ever felt the administration’s tariff policy had begun to encroach on Congress’ constitutional powers. WHY IT MATTERS: Congress has ceded its tariff power to Trump for now, even amid economic turbulence. Johnson said Trump’s tariffs are working and that he talks to the president “sometimes multiple times a day.” “I think the executive has a broad array