Trump tariffs live updates: Supreme Court strikes down president’s plan in major blow to MAGA agenda
Trump calls Supreme Court tariff ruling a ‘disgrace’ and hints at backup plan
- President Donald Trump has blasted the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to strike down his global tariffs.
- During a White House breakfast Friday morning, he called the decision a “disgrace” and said he has a backup plan.
- In its 6–3 decision, Supreme Court justices ruled that Trump’s levies were not lawful under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which permits the president to regulate trade in “unusual and extraordinary” circumstances when a national emergency is declared.
- Chief Justice John Roberts authored the ruling, and was joined by conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett in addition to the high court’s three liberal justices.
- The decision is likely to have a significant economic impact as the administration had already warned that such a ruling could force them to refund billions of dollars in revenue collected from the tariffs.
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