If Trump truly wants to implement tariff-based trade policy through tariffs as described, this cannot be done via executive order because the 'power of the purse' constitutionally belongs to the House and Senate—tariffs are attacks on the power of the purse—so Trump may be strategically front-loading economic pain in his first 100 days to clear the market, aiming to show strong markets and economy by midterm elections and thereby secure a 60-seat Senate supermajority to enshrine these policies into law.