Trump, Tariffs and Court
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President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers stressed Sunday that they would not be deterred by a recent court decision that declared many of the administration’s tariffs to be illegal, as they pointed out a variety of additional
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick downplayed the impact of legal uncertainty around U.S. tariffs on negotiations with the European Union during an interview with Fox News Sunday, saying talks were ongoing.
The prominent conservative legal activist is “a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America,” the president fumed on social media about his former ally.
Even if courts block many of President Trump’s tariffs, households would still lose an estimated $950 in purchasing power a year, a Yale analysis shows.
GOP lawmakers are quietly hopeful that Trump’s damaging tariff plans will end with decisive Supreme Court decision.
For months, President Donald Trump has boasted that his most sweeping tariffs amount to powerful leverage to win trade concessions from Beijing to Brussels.