Tariff War passes into next phase

President Trump anticipated SCOTUS behavior and is already taking Action, Action, Action to grow American jobs and smash the debt through new tariffs. This story is far from over

Some may be crowing that President Trump has been defeated. Those that are, have been saying the same thing since 2016 and in this case are also rooting for sending more American jobs overseas. They are putting America last, while President Trump is putting Americans first.

The decision by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) was very simple: The President cannot use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs. SCOTUS did not rule that the President cannot impose tariffs.

Ilya Shapiro wrote, “the ruling is necessarily narrow. The court did not say the president lacks authority to impose tariffs. It said this law doesn’t authorize these tariffs.”

Ilya went on:

“The Supreme Court’s tariff decision landed about where conventional wisdom said it would: The justices ruled 6–3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act simply doesn’t give the president the sweeping authority the Trump administration claimed. That’s not a political rebuke. It’s a legal one, and a narrow one at that.

Chief Justice John Roberts put the bottom line plainly: “We hold that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs.”

That’s it. Not that tariffs are unconstitutional. Not that Trump’s trade agenda is illegitimate. Just that this particular statute doesn’t do the work the administration wanted it to do.

The core of the majority’s reasoning is straightforward and, frankly, hard to argue with. Article I gives Congress the power to tax, and tariffs are taxes.

As Roberts explained, “The power to impose tariffs is ‘very clear[ly] . . . a branch of the taxing power.’” The administration conceded the president has no inherent authority to impose tariffs. So everything turned on whether Congress clearly delegated that power in IEEPA.”

If you want to grow the American Economy with productive jobs of the future that make things, and more importantly, make things that make things, it will be a journey to undo 70 years of Globalism that gave away American jobs to other countries.

What happened by SCOTUS was a very simple ruling on use of a specific authority, there is far more to come on tariffs.

The experts have been crowing that President Trump has been defeated since 2016 - they have been wrong every time.

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