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We should care, the likely damage from this while mainly diffuse impacts will be large. But no, there's not much one can do about this. The effective altruist community is not large enough nor influential enough to have any substantial impact on this matter.
Would it be worth attempting to fund some entity who is in a position to do something about it?
Outspending an organisation like the US chamber of commerce who lobbies a lot won't be cheap.
There also the problem of lack of information. The information that you read in newspapers about Washington is not objective but put into circulation to achieve political ends. Understanding the details of the problem enough to be able to usefully engage with the situation would require inside information that most of us probably don't have.