Trump, White House and his tariffs
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The Court of International Trade blocked a large portion of President Donald Trump‘s latest tariff policies, but according to Goldman Sachs economist Alec Phillips, the White House has a clear and swift path to restoring most of them—potentially within
The Federalist Society has long been seen as one of the most successful projects of the conservative movement. Team Trump no longer seems to care.
For a White House that has grown accustomed to a rollercoaster of legal rulings, judicial decisions over the past day throwing President Donald Trump’s tariff plans into question landed like a bombshell.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sharply criticizes the judges on a federal trade court that blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
"Article One Section Eight gives Congress the power over taxes and tariffs. The Constitution is clear," Bacon, a rare Republican critic of Trump, posted to X. Another X user replied to say the 1934 Reciprocal Tariff Act delegated that power to the president when there is a national emergency.
The legal confusion over tariffs has buffeted U.S. trading partners around the world, casting doubt on the durability of Trump’s favorite bargaining tool.