The incessant inaction of Congress means that President Donald Trump is increasingly using emergency powers to get things done.

From tariffs to immigration to cartels to crime, Trump has repeatedly cited the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to gain the authority to take action.

It shouldn’t be this way.

Congress is perfectly capable of legislating on these issues and more, but its members are too consumed with staging victimhood pageants and crying on the Capitol steps to pass laws and demand their enforcement.

Take tariffs: Trump declared an emergency to impose them on many US trading partners, aiming to give America an upper hand — or at least equality — in global commerce.

That’s traditionally the job of Congress, which can also expressly delegate tariff authority to the pres

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