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Donald Trump says he has signed order imposing 10% global tariffs

Trump says he has signed an order imposing a 10% tariff on all imports

Donald Trump has announced on his social media platform that he has signed an order to impose tariffs on every nation, although he made no reference to what legal authority he was relying on to do so.

“It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” the president posted.

Minutes later the White House released a fact sheet explaining that Trump had signed a proclamation “invoking his authority under section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974” to impose “a temporary import duty”.

Last year, the Congressional Research Service, which provides legislative research and analysis to lawmakers, explained that, temporary, legal authority:

double quotation markSection 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 directs the President to take measures that may include a temporary import surcharge (tariff) when necessary to address “large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits” or certain other situations that present “fundamental international payments problems.” Section 122 has never been used, and therefore courts have had no occasion to interpret its language. Some news reports have noted this provision appears to authorize the President to impose across-the-board tariffs on imports in some circumstances.

The law does, however, place limits on such tariffs which may be imposed by the president for “a period not exceeding 150 days,” and are “not to exceed 15 percent”.

This brings our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a close for the day. Here are the latest developments:

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    The US supreme court ruled 6-3 that the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump using emergency powers are illegal and the president took it well reacted with fury and vowed to find a way to impose even more import taxes using legal authorities he does have.

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    Later in the day, the president signed a proclamation to impose global 10% import taxes on goods from all nations, with a long list of exceptions, that can only stay in place for 150 days.

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    The president read an angry denunciation of the court to the assembled press corps at a White House news conference which had apparently been drafted for social media because it concluded with the phrase “Thank you for your attention to this matter”, words Trump read aloud.

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    The president called on a series of reporters for fringe, pro-Trump outlets at the news conference who helped him to boost his message instead of challenging him.

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    Writing on his social media platform on Friday night, Trump continued his tirade, saying the six justices who ruled that the tariffs he imposed under the guise of a fictional “emergency” were illegal “should be ashamed of themselves.”

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    Critics of the president’s tariffs argued that refunds of the illegally collected tariffs are necessary.

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    The Pentagon announced on social media that the US military killed three suspected drug smugglers in a strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday.

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In a scathing opinion, a senior federal judge in West Virginia on Thursday ordered the release of a 21-year-old Salvadoran man with a pending asylum claim and legal work permit who was stopped without cause and detained by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on 7 January.

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The US district court judge, Joseph Goodwin, prefaced his order granting the release of Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos by saying that “Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice” to the unrestrained exercise of power by masked federal agents.

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He continued:

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Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government—masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind—are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process. The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent. It is what the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment forbids.

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“The use of masks and other tactics that obscure official identity carries historical and semiotic weight,” Goodwin, who was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1995, added. “In this nation’s history, the Ku Klux Klan relied on masks to terrorize victims while concealing accountability.”

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“With this background in mind,” the judge added, “the ICE tactics of anonymous enforcement in this case contravene the history, purpose, and modern interpretation of the Fourth Amendment.”

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In his conclusion the judge wrote: “An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society.”

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Writing on his social media platform on Friday night, Donald Trump said the six justices who ruled that the tariffs he imposed under the guise of a fictional “emergency” were illegal “should be ashamed of themselves.”

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Trump called their decision “ridiculous” but tried to sell his followers on the idea that the temporary import taxes he does have the power to impose, for 150 days, could be even better.

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The president then accused the three justices nominated by Republican presidents who ruled that the tariffs were clearly a form of tax that only Congress has the power to impose of not being partisan enough.

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Trump blamed two justices he nominated, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, and the chief justice, John Roberts for the ruling he called an “effort to allow Foreign Countries that have been ripping us off for years to continue to do so”.

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All three of those justices ruled in Trump’s favor in 2024 when they decided that he had broad immunity from prosecution for having plotted to stay in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election, when his lies about mass voter fraud inspired his supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6 2021 to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

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The Pentagon announced on social media that the US military killed three suspected drug smugglers in a strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday.

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The post was accompanied by video said to show the latest strike in a series of 43 attacks since September that have now killed at least 148 people accused by the Pentagon of smuggling drugs by sea in the Pacific and Caribbean.

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Those attacks have been described as “a campaign of extrajudicial killings” by legal experts who say they are being conducted “without any credible legal basis.”

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The White House fact sheet on the new, temporary 10% import tax on goods from all nations includes a list of goods that will “not be subject to the temporary import duty”.

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Here is the White House list of imports not subject to the 150-day temporary tax:

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    certain critical minerals, metals used in currency and bullion, energy, and energy products;

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    natural resources and fertilizers that cannot be grown, mined, or otherwise produced in the United States or grown, mined, or otherwise produced in sufficient quantities to meet domestic demand;

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    certain agricultural products, including beef, tomatoes, and oranges;

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    pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients;

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    certain electronics;

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    passenger vehicles, certain light trucks, certain medium and heavy-duty vehicles, buses, and certain parts of passenger vehicles, light trucks, heavy-duty vehicles, and buses;

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    certain aerospace products; and

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    informational materials (e.g., books), donations, and accompanied baggage.

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The White House also says the following goods will not be subject to the temporary import duty:

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    all articles and parts of articles that currently are or later become subject to section 232 actions;

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    USMCA compliant goods of Canada and Mexico; and

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    textiles and apparel articles that enter duty-free as a good of Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Nicaragua under the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement.

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According to a newly released White House fact sheet, Donald Trump just “signed a Proclamation imposing a temporary import duty” of 10% on all imports to the United States from every nation for a period of 150 days.

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The proclamation text is not yet public, but the fact sheet says that the new global import tax will be imposed starting at 12:01 am Eastern Time on Tuesday, 24 February.

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If the new global import tax remains in place for the full duration, it would expire in late July.

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Donald Trump has announced on his social media platform that he has signed an order to impose tariffs on every nation, although he made no reference to what legal authority he was relying on to do so.

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“It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” the president posted.

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Minutes later the White House released a fact sheet explaining that Trump had signed a proclamation “invoking his authority under section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974” to impose “a temporary import duty”.

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Last year, the Congressional Research Service, which provides legislative research and analysis to lawmakers, explained that, temporary, legal authority:

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Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 directs the President to take measures that may include a temporary import surcharge (tariff) when necessary to address “large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits” or certain other situations that present “fundamental international payments problems.” Section 122 has never been used, and therefore courts have had no occasion to interpret its language. Some news reports have noted this provision appears to authorize the President to impose across-the-board tariffs on imports in some circumstances.

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The law does, however, place limits on such tariffs which may be imposed by the president for “a period not exceeding 150 days,” and are “not to exceed 15 percent”.

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Donald Trump’s news conference in the White House briefing room earlier on Friday was a reminder of just how much his staff has done to surround the president with friendly reporters from pro-Trump outlets he can turn to when he wants to avoid difficult questions from nonpartisan journalists.

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The event began with the bizarre spectacle of Trump reading aloud a statement attacking the supreme court justices who ruled that his tariffs were illegal which was clearly crafted in the form of a social media post, since it ended with the words “Thank you for your attention to this matter,” which the president also read out loud.

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When he then took questions, Trump repeatedly stopped nonpartisan journalists from asking him questions by cutting them off and pointing to correspondents from fringe outlets known for their fanatically pro-Trump coverage.

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That began when the president invited the first question by pointing to the back of the room, and then, when the former Fox News correspondent Jon Decker started to speak, Trump cut him off and indicated that he was giving the floor to Cara Castronuova, a former fitness influencer who now represents Lindell TV, the channel for fans of the pillow salesman turned conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell. Castronuova asked Trump if he hoped to soon replace the court’s two most rightwing justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, with younger ideologues.

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Trump was noncommittal, but the question was clearly part of a campaign to get the two justices to retire while Trump still has a Republican Senate to confirm their replacements.

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When Lindell TV shared the exchange of social media, the outlet made that clear in a caption that read: “Amy Coney Barrett and crew just is not cutting it. These dangerous liberals in disguise must be vetted in different ways moving forward. Imagine if the great Justices Thomas and Alito at the end of Trump’s term were able to personally hand pick their successors …. That’s the plan. Re-share this to get this idea into the universe.”

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Minutes later, Trump pointed to the other side of the room, and the CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes asked him if he regretted appointing Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court. Trump cut her off, saying, “I don’t talk to CNN, it’s fake news” and asked Daniel Baldwin of the pro-Trump cable channel One America News to speak.

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Baldwin, as he often does, framed his question as a hymn of praise for the president. “Yesterday, you made the case that the economy is the hottest it’s been in a long time,” Baldwin said. “January jobs report beat expectations, CPI report beat expectation, real wages are up. What would you tell Americans who are worried that this decision will kind of throw the economy that you have projected going in the right direction at a very rapid pace off track?”

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“Well, thank you for the question,” Trump replied, before turning to his familiar talking points about how great tariffs are.

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The president then took another friendly question from Owen Jensen, the White House correspondent for EWTN, or Eternal Word Television Network, a pro-Trump Catholic network and invited Monica Paige, a former One American News reporter who now works for the rightwing Turning Point USA, to help him drive home his message. “I know you speak to a lot of factory workers, a lot of manufacturing workers,” Paige began. “What does this supreme court ruling say- what’s that message to those factory workers?”

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Trump took the opportunity to spend the next three-plus minutes repeating his familiar boasts about what he calls his shrewd use of tariffs in trade deals.

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In a letter to the broadcasters he regulates, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, urged the nation’s privately owned television and radio stations to support the Trump administration’s “celebration of America’s 250th birthday by airing patriotic, pro-America content that celebrates the American journey and inspires its citizens by highlighting the historic accomplishments of this great nation from our founding through the Trump Administration today”.

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Among Carr’s idea for such programming, he suggested something more often seen on state television in authoritarian countries: “Starting each broadcast day with the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ or Pledge of Allegiance.”

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As a miffed Donald Trump pointed out in his remarks earlier, the US supreme court did not explicitly address the question of whether or not his administration is now required to issue refunds to American importers who have already paid the tariffs the court held to be illegal.

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“We’ve taken in hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump noted. “What happens to all the money that we took in? It wasn’t discussed. Wouldn’t you think they would have put one sentence in there saying that keep the money or don’t keep the money?”

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Critics of the president’s tariffs immediately argued that refunds are, in fact necessary.

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The governor of Illinois, Democrat JB Pritzker, sent a letter to the president demanding “a refund of $1,700 for every family in Illinois”, or $8.7bn, with a mocked up invoice that described Trump’s account as “Past Due – Delinquent”.

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“America’s working families deserve a refund,” Pritzker said in a social media video. “Cut the check, Donald.”

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The Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman made the same point in more erudite language on his Substack, noting that the ruling was “scathing and said clearly that Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was a usurpation of taxation authority that belongs to Congress: “We are therefore skeptical that in IEEPA – and IEEPA alone – Congress hid a delegation of its birth-right power to tax.”

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“Trump announced that he would immediately use another little-known legal route – Section 122 – to impose immediate 10 percent tariffs across the board. Section 122 tariffs can only last 150 days, but he claimed that during that stretch he would find ways to use other authorities to maintain high tariffs,” Krugman added. “I don’t see, by the way, how such alternatives would obviate the need to refund the tariffs already collected. If you seized money without constitutional authority, finding other revenue sources going forward doesn’t make the original seizure legal.”

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An analysis from the Penn-Wharton Budget Model suggests that “reversing the IEEPA tariffs will generate up to $175 billion in refunds”.

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“The decision does not explicitly order immediate refunds,” experts at the president’s alma mater wrote. “However, the decision that the tariffs were collected illegally has opened the door to refund claims. Importers generally have 180 days after goods are ‘liquidated’ to protest and request refunds from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”

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In remarks to the Economic Club of Dallas, Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, responded to a question about the upcoming “food fight” over the approximately $175bn in tariff revenue already collected under the tariffs by saying: “I got a feeling the American people won’t see it.”

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Many experts have suggested that Bessent is correct that American consumers who paid higher prices for imported goods are not likely to see refunds, which would go to the import firms that paid the taxes.

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“The government should ensure a timely and simple refund process,” Erica York, of the non-partisan Tax Foundation, argued on social media. “Refunds will go to importers of record, and in many cases, that means the refund may not go to the people who ultimately bore the tariff cost.”

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    In a stunning rebuke against the Trump administration’s economic policy, the supreme court ruled many of the president’s sweeping tariffs illegal. In a 6-3 decision, the court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) – a 1977 statute which grants the president authority to regulate or prohibit certain international transactions during a national emergency – does not authorize Donald Trump to unilaterally impose the tariffs. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.

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    Trump, incensed but determined, assailed the ruling at an impromptu press conference. The president called the decision “deeply disappointing” and said he was “ashamed” of the justices who ruled against his use of IEEPA. He hurled insults at them while speaking to reporters, calling them “fools and lap dogs”, “very unpatriotic and disloyal to our constitution” and even made baseless claims that they were being swayed by “foreign interests”. In contrast, he praised the conservative justices who dissented, highlighting justice Brett Kavanaugh’s written opinion.

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    The president quickly announced that that he would impose 10% global tariffs under Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act. This statute allows the president impose levies for up to 150 days, before requiring congressional approval to extend them. He also stressed that the national‑security tariffs and those tied to “unreasonable” trade practices from other countries will stay in place.

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    When it comes to the refunds from the now-invalidated tarriffs already paid under IEEPA, Trump railed against the lack of guidance in the court’s ruling today. “What happens to all the money that we took in? It wasn’t discussed,” he told reporters. “Wouldn’t you think they would have put one sentence in there saying that keep the money or don’t keep the money … I guess it has to get litigated for the next two years.”

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    Lawmakers generally responded along party lines. Democrats welcomed the court’s decision, while many Republicans said they respected the ruling but would work with the administration to keep the tariffs in place. Trump, for his part, didn’t say whether he regretted nominating Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett to the bench after the sided with liberal justices today. Instead, he said their concurrence was “an embarrassment to their families”.

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Donald Trump said today that the six supreme court justices who ruled agains his global tariffs under IEEPA are “barely” invited to next week’s State of the Union address at the US Capitol.

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“Honestly, I couldn’t care less if they come,” the president said.

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Following on from my last post, Donald Trump announced that he would impose 10% global tariffs under Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act. This lets the president impose tariffs up to 15% for up to 150 days. These levies would, however, require Congress’s approval to extend beyond the deadline.

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Trump also said he would use Section 301 to open investigations to “protect our country from unfair trading practices of other countries and companies”.

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In his remarks today, Trump lambasted the liberal supreme court justices today, as well as those who concurred with the opinion that the use of IEEPA was illegal.

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“The Democrats on the court are thrilled,” Trump said. “They’re against anything that makes America strong, healthy and great again. They also are a frankly, disgrace to our nation, those justices.”

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He went on to criticize “certain” members of the court, which would include justices he nominated to the bench – such as Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.

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“They’re very unpatriotic and disloyal to our constitution,” Trump added. “It’s my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think,” he said without citing any evidence for his claims.

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Donald Trump is now speaking to reporters in the White House press briefing room. He kicked off his remarks by saying that the supreme court’s ruling today, invalidating many of his tariffs, was “deeply disappointing”.

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He said he was “ashamed of certain members of the court” – namely the six justices who said that the president’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to justify his global tariffs was illegal.

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“I’d like to thank and congratulate justices Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh for their strength and wisdom and love of our country … very proud of those justices,” he said of the jurists who dissented.

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Donald Trump is due to hold a press briefing at 12.45pm ET in what will be his first public remarks since the supreme court ruled against the legality of his sweeping global tariffs.

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The only response we’ve had from the president so far is a comment he reportedly made at this morning’s White House breakfast meeting with US governors. According to CNN he called the decision a “disgrace”.

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We’ll bring you all the key lines from the briefing once it gets under way.

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Mike Pence, the former vice-president during Donald Trump’s first administration, welcomed the supreme court’s decision that the president’s global tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) are illegal.

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“Our Supreme Court has reaffirmed that the Constitution grants Congress – not the President – the power to tax,” Pence said in a statement. “With this decision, American families and businesses can breathe a sigh of relief.”

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The Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, has said the supreme court’s ruling that many of the president’s global tariffs are illegal is “a win for the wallets of every American consumer”.

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The administration’s “chaotic and illegal tariff tax made life more expensive and our economy more unstable”, Schumer said. “Families paid more. Small businesses and farmers got squeezed. Markets swung wildly.”

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Joining the chorus of lawmakers heralding the court’s decision today, Schumer called on Donald Trump to “end this reckless trade war for good and finally give families and small businesses the relief they deserve”.

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Donald Trump reportedly said the supreme court’s decision was a “disgrace” at a White House breakfast meeting with US governors, according to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. He also told those gathered that he has a backup plan.

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The president has yet to put out an official statement, or comment on social media.

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We’re starting to see members of Congress react to the supreme court ruling that many of Donald Trump’s global tariffs are illegal.

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Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren, said that no decision can “undo the massive damage that the Trump tariffs have done to small businesses, to American supply chains, and especially to American families forced to pay higher prices on everything from groceries to housing”.

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She added that there is “no legal mechanism for consumers and many small businesses to recoup the money they have already paid”.

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“Giant corporations with their armies of lawyers and lobbyists can sue for tariff refunds, then just pocket the money for themselves. It’s one more example of how the game is rigged,” said Warren, who is the ranking member on the Senate banking committee. “Any refunds from the federal government should end up in the pockets of the millions of Americans and small businesses that were illegally cheated out of their hard-earned money by Donald Trump.”

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The supreme court has issued a sharp rebuke against the Trump administration and ruled against the legality of the president’s sweeping global tariffs.

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In a 6-3 decision, the court holds that International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) – a 1977 statute which grants the president authority to regulate or prohibit certain international transactions during a national emergency – does not authorize the president to impose the tariffs.

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Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.

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The court has issued a decision in a case challenging the legality of Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs. We’ll bring you the latest as we parse through the opinion.

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Another eagerly anticipated decision from the supreme court is the future of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The justices are poised to make a decision on whether to keep the provision, which prohibits electoral maps that dilute the voting power of minority groups, in tact.

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Lawyers for the state of Louisiana, a group of “non-African American voters” and the Trump administration say that the court needs to do away with the 2024 state map. If the court agrees, it would ultimately set a precedent that makes it considerably harder to bring redistricting lawsuits on the basis of race.

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We’re keeping a close eye on the supreme court today, and a possible decision on the legality of Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs.

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A reminder, the justices will decide whether the administration lawfully relied on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) – a 1977 statute which grants the president authority to regulate or prohibit certain international transactions during a national emergency – to justify the tariffs.

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A reminder that the word “tariff” isn’t actually included in the law, and Congress is typically the branch of government which has the power to implement taxes.

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We’ll bring you the latest lines as we get them.

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Growth in the US economy has slowed sharply, new data shows.

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US gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2025, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has reported – the equivalent of expanding by 0.35% in the quarter.

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The BEA says:

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That’s down from annualised growth of 4.4% in the third quarter of last year, and may be a sign that the US government shutdown at the end of last year hit growth.

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My colleague, Graeme Wearden, is covering the latest developments on GDP figures:

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Secretary of state Marco Rubio will meet with Britain’s foreign minister Yvette Cooper today, after Donald Trump renewed his criticism of London for ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, which is home to a US-UK air base.

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Last year British prime minister Keir Starmer agreed a deal to transfer sovereignty of the Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius, while keeping control of one – Diego Garcia – through a 99-year lease that preserved US operations at the base.

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Washington last year gave its blessing to the agreement, but Trump has since changed his mind several times. In January, Trump described it as an act of “great stupidity“, but earlier this month said he understood the deal was the best Starmer could make, before then renewing his criticism this week.

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The Diego Garcia base has recently been used for operations in the Middle East against Yemen’s Houthis and in humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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Although on Tuesday Rubio’s state department said it backed the Chagos accord, the next day Trump said Britain was making a big mistake.

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“DO NOT GIVE AWAY DIEGO GARCIA!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, saying the base could be called upon in any future military operation to “eradicate a potential attack” from Iran.

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Under the conditions for using the joint base, Britain would need to agree in advance to any operations out of Diego Garcia.

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Experts say there are already sufficient US military assets in the Middle East to begin an aerial bombing campaign against Iran, potentially in conjunction with Israel, though it is less clear what this would achieve.

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The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and other warships in a strike group have been in the Arabian Sea for nearly a month, with nine squadrons of aircraft including F-35 Lightning IIs and F/A-18 Super Hornets.

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A second carrier strike group, led by the USS Gerald R Ford, was last confirmed to be in the Atlantic west of Morocco on Tuesday. It is expected to head through the strait of Gibraltar and towards the eastern Mediterranean, a voyage of several days.

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The Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, sailed from the Caribbean Sea, where last month the warship was involved in the seizure of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro from a fortified compound in a night raid.

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Together, the carrier strike groups could generate “several hundred strike sorties a day for a few weeks, an intensity greater than during the 12-days war”, said Matthew Savill, the director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute.

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Even without the Ford, planes flying from the Lincoln could fly 125 or more bombing missions a day, giving the US the means to start attacking government and military sites in Iran in an aerial campaign if Trump chooses to attack.

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Aviation experts have tracked a large movement of military planes to the Middle East as the US ramps up pressure on Iran. Six E-3 Sentry Awacs, critical for real-time command and control operations, are now deployed at Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia, having been moved from the US and Japan.

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Read the full story here:

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.

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We start with reports that Donald Trump is considering an early strike to force the Iranians to the negotiating table. An early strike could likely target specific government buildings or military sites and may be limited enough so as not to provoke a full-scale retaliation from Iran, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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One unnamed official told the Journal that aides had also discussed large-scale operations, which could involve increasingly larger strikes with an eventual aim of ending the Iranian regime’s nuclear work or the collapse of the government.

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The reports come after Trump publicly told Iran that it has “10 to 15 days” to cut a deal over its nuclear program, as the US continues its vast military build up in the region.

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“We’re either going to get a deal, or it’s going to be unfortunate for them,” Trump told reporters on board Air Force One yesterday.

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He added that negotiations could be allowed to continue for another 10 to 15 days, a deadline the president described as “pretty much” the “maximum”.

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“I would think that would be enough time,” Trump said.

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The US has kept the option of military action against Iran on the table, as it continues to amass the greatest buildup of forces since the Iraq invasion 23 years ago, Bloomberg reported.

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It has moved two aircraft carriers, fighter jets and refueling tankers in the region since the start of the year, giving the US the option of a sustained campaign last several days in co-operation with Israel.

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This brings our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a close for the day. Here are the latest developments:

  • The US supreme court ruled 6-3 that the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump using emergency powers are illegal and the president took it well reacted with fury and vowed to find a way to impose even more import taxes using legal authorities he does have.

  • Later in the day, the president signed a proclamation to impose global 10% import taxes on goods from all nations, with a long list of exceptions, that can only stay in place for 150 days.

  • The president read an angry denunciation of the court to the assembled press corps at a White House news conference which had apparently been drafted for social media because it concluded with the phrase “Thank you for your attention to this matter”, words Trump read aloud.

  • The president called on a series of reporters for fringe, pro-Trump outlets at the news conference who helped him to boost his message instead of challenging him.

  • Writing on his social media platform on Friday night, Trump continued his tirade, saying the six justices who ruled that the tariffs he imposed under the guise of a fictional “emergency” were illegal “should be ashamed of themselves.”

  • Critics of the president’s tariffs argued that refunds of the illegally collected tariffs are necessary.

  • The Pentagon announced on social media that the US military killed three suspected drug smugglers in a strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday.

Federal judge in West Virginia compares ICE to ‘secret police’ in order releasing asylum-seeker detained without cause

In a scathing opinion, a senior federal judge in West Virginia on Thursday ordered the release of a 21-year-old Salvadoran man with a pending asylum claim and legal work permit who was stopped without cause and detained by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on 7 January.

The US district court judge, Joseph Goodwinprefaced his order granting the release of Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos by saying that “Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice” to the unrestrained exercise of power by masked federal agents.

He continued:

double quotation markAcross the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government—masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind—are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process. The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent. It is what the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment forbids.

“The use of masks and other tactics that obscure official identity carries historical and semiotic weight,” Goodwin, who was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1995, added. “In this nation’s history, the Ku Klux Klan relied on masks to terrorize victims while concealing accountability.”

“With this background in mind,” the judge added, “the ICE tactics of anonymous enforcement in this case contravene the history, purpose, and modern interpretation of the Fourth Amendment.”

In his conclusion the judge wrote: “An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society.”

Trump attacks supreme court justices he nominated for not being partisan enough

Writing on his social media platform on Friday night, Donald Trump said the six justices who ruled that the tariffs he imposed under the guise of a fictional “emergency” were illegal “should be ashamed of themselves.”

Trump called their decision “ridiculous” but tried to sell his followers on the idea that the temporary import taxes he does have the power to impose, for 150 days, could be even better.

The president then accused the three justices nominated by Republican presidents who ruled that the tariffs were clearly a form of tax that only Congress has the power to impose of not being partisan enough.

Trump blamed two justices he nominated, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrettand the chief justice, John Roberts for the ruling he called an “effort to allow Foreign Countries that have been ripping us off for years to continue to do so”.

All three of those justices ruled in Trump’s favor in 2024 when they decided that he had broad immunity from prosecution for having plotted to stay in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election, when his lies about mass voter fraud inspired his supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6 2021 to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

US military announces killing of three suspected drug smugglers in Eastern Pacific

The Pentagon announced on social media that the US military killed three suspected drug smugglers in a strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday.

The post was accompanied by video said to show the latest strike in a series of 43 attacks since September that have now killed at least 148 people accused by the Pentagon of smuggling drugs by sea in the Pacific and Caribbean.

Those attacks have been described as “a campaign of extrajudicial killings” by legal experts who say they are being conducted “without any credible legal basis.”

White House lists imports that are exempted from new, temporary 10% tax

The White House fact sheet on the new, temporary 10% import tax on goods from all nations includes a list of goods that will “not be subject to the temporary import duty”.

Here is the White House list of imports not subject to the 150-day temporary tax:

  • certain critical minerals, metals used in currency and bullion, energy, and energy products;

  • natural resources and fertilizers that cannot be grown, mined, or otherwise produced in the United States or grown, mined, or otherwise produced in sufficient quantities to meet domestic demand;

  • certain agricultural products, including beef, tomatoes, and oranges;

  • pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients;

  • certain electronics;

  • passenger vehicles, certain light trucks, certain medium and heavy-duty vehicles, buses, and certain parts of passenger vehicles, light trucks, heavy-duty vehicles, and buses;

  • certain aerospace products; and

  • informational materials (e.gbooks), donations, and accompanied baggage.

The White House also says the following goods will not be subject to the temporary import duty:

  • all articles and parts of articles that currently are or later become subject to section 232 actions;

  • USMCA compliant goods of Canada and Mexico; and

  • textiles and apparel articles that enter duty-free as a good of Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Nicaragua under the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement.

White House says Trump’s temporary global import duty of 10% takes effect on Tuesday

According to a newly released White House fact sheet, Donald Trump just “signed a Proclamation imposing a temporary import duty” of 10% on all imports to the United States from every nation for a period of 150 days.

The proclamation text is not yet public, but the fact sheet says that the new global import tax will be imposed starting at 12:01 am Eastern Time on Tuesday, 24 February.

If the new global import tax remains in place for the full duration, it would expire in late July.

Trump says he has signed an order imposing a 10% tariff on all imports

Donald Trump has announced on his social media platform that he has signed an order to impose tariffs on every nation, although he made no reference to what legal authority he was relying on to do so.

“It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” the president posted.

Minutes later the White House released a fact sheet explaining that Trump had signed a proclamation “invoking his authority under section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974” to impose “a temporary import duty”.

Last year, the Congressional Research Service, which provides legislative research and analysis to lawmakers, explained that, temporary, legal authority:

double quotation markSection 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 directs the President to take measures that may include a temporary import surcharge (tariff) when necessary to address “large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits” or certain other situations that present “fundamental international payments problems.” Section 122 has never been used, and therefore courts have had no occasion to interpret its language. Some news reports have noted this provision appears to authorize the President to impose across-the-board tariffs on imports in some circumstances.

The law does, however, place limits on such tariffs which may be imposed by the president for “a period not exceeding 150 days,” and are “not to exceed 15 percent”.

At briefing on tariffs, Trump picked reporters from pro-Trump outlets to ask him friendly questions

Donald Trump’s news conference in the White House briefing room earlier on Friday was a reminder of just how much his staff has done to surround the president with friendly reporters from pro-Trump outlets he can turn to when he wants to avoid difficult questions from nonpartisan journalists.

The event began with the bizarre spectacle of Trump reading aloud a statement attacking the supreme court justices who ruled that his tariffs were illegal which was clearly crafted in the form of a social media post, since it ended with the words “Thank you for your attention to this matter,” which the president also read out loud.

When he then took questions, Trump repeatedly stopped nonpartisan journalists from asking him questions by cutting them off and pointing to correspondents from fringe outlets known for their fanatically pro-Trump coverage.

Donald Trump pointed at a reporter in the White House briefing room on Friday.
Donald Trump pointed at a reporter in the White House briefing room on Friday. Photograph: Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

That began when the president invited the first question by pointing to the back of the room, and then, when the former Fox News correspondent Jon Decker started to speak, Trump cut him off and indicated that he was giving the floor to Dear Castronuovaa former fitness influencer who now represents Lindell TV, the channel for fans of the pillow salesman turned conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell. Castronuova asked Trump if he hoped to soon replace the court’s two most rightwing justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, with younger ideologues.

Trump was noncommittal, but the question was clearly part of a campaign to get the two justices to retire while Trump still has a Republican Senate to confirm their replacements.

When Lindell TV shared the exchange of social media, the outlet made that clear in a caption that read: “Amy Coney Barrett and crew just is not cutting it. These dangerous liberals in disguise must be vetted in different ways moving forward. Imagine if the great Justices Thomas and Alito at the end of Trump’s term were able to personally hand pick their successors …. That’s the plan. Re-share this to get this idea into the universe.”

Minutes later, Trump pointed to the other side of the room, and the CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes asked him if he regretted appointing Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court. Trump cut her off, saying, “I don’t talk to CNN, it’s fake news” and asked Daniel Baldwin of the pro-Trump cable channel One America News to speak.

Baldwin, as he often does, framed his question as a hymn of praise for the president. “Yesterday, you made the case that the economy is the hottest it’s been in a long time,” Baldwin said. “January jobs report beat expectations, CPI report beat expectation, real wages are up. What would you tell Americans who are worried that this decision will kind of throw the economy that you have projected going in the right direction at a very rapid pace off track?”

“Well, thank you for the question,” Trump replied, before turning to his familiar talking points about how great tariffs are.

The president then took another friendly question from Owen Jensenthe White House correspondent for EWTN, or Eternal Word Television Network, a pro-Trump Catholic network and invited Monica Paigea former One American News reporter who now works for the rightwing Turning Point USA, to help him drive home his message. “I know you speak to a lot of factory workers, a lot of manufacturing workers,” Paige began. “What does this supreme court ruling say- what’s that message to those factory workers?”

Trump took the opportunity to spend the next three-plus minutes repeating his familiar boasts about what he calls his shrewd use of tariffs in trade deals.

FCC chair urges broadcasters to commit to daily airing of US national anthem or pledge of allegiance

In a letter to the broadcasters he regulates, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carrurged the nation’s privately owned television and radio stations to support the Trump administration’s “celebration of America’s 250th birthday by airing patriotic, pro-America content that celebrates the American journey and inspires its citizens by highlighting the historic accomplishments of this great nation from our founding through the Trump Administration today”.

Among Carr’s idea for such programming, he suggested something more often seen on state television in authoritarian countries: “Starting each broadcast day with the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ or Pledge of Allegiance.”

Court did not direct Trump to issue refunds on his illegal tariffs, but demand for them is growing

As a miffed Donald Trump pointed out in his remarks earlier, the US supreme court did not explicitly address the question of whether or not his administration is now required to issue refunds to American importers who have already paid the tariffs the court held to be illegal.

“We’ve taken in hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump noted. “What happens to all the money that we took in? It wasn’t discussed. Wouldn’t you think they would have put one sentence in there saying that keep the money or don’t keep the money?”

Critics of the president’s tariffs immediately argued that refunds are, in fact necessary.

The governor of Illinois, Democrat JB Pritzkersent a letter to the president demanding “a refund of $1,700 for every family in Illinois”, or $8.7bn, with a mocked up invoice that described Trump’s account as “Past Due – Delinquent”.

“America’s working families deserve a refund,” Pritzker said in a social media video. “Cut the check, Donald.”

The Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman made the same point in more erudite language on his Substack, noting that the ruling was “scathing and said clearly that Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was a usurpation of taxation authority that belongs to Congress: “We are therefore skeptical that in IEEPA – and IEEPA alone – Congress hid a delegation of its birth-right power to tax.”

“Trump announced that he would immediately use another little-known legal route – Section 122 – to impose immediate 10 percent tariffs across the board. Section 122 tariffs can only last 150 days, but he claimed that during that stretch he would find ways to use other authorities to maintain high tariffs,” Krugman added. “I don’t see, by the way, how such alternatives would obviate the need to refund the tariffs already collected. If you seized money without constitutional authority, finding other revenue sources going forward doesn’t make the original seizure legal.”

An analysis from the Penn-Wharton Budget Model suggests that “reversing the IEEPA tariffs will generate up to $175 billion in refunds”.

“The decision does not explicitly order immediate refunds,” experts at the president’s alma mater wrote. “However, the decision that the tariffs were collected illegally has opened the door to refund claims. Importers generally have 180 days after goods are ‘liquidated’ to protest and request refunds from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”

In remarks to the Economic Club of Dallas, Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessantresponded to a question about the upcoming “food fight” over the approximately $175bn in tariff revenue already collected under the tariffs by saying: “I got a feeling the American people won’t see it.”

Many experts have suggested that Bessent is correct that American consumers who paid higher prices for imported goods are not likely to see refunds, which would go to the import firms that paid the taxes.

“The government should ensure a timely and simple refund process,” Erica Yorkof the non-partisan Tax Foundation, argued on social media. “Refunds will go to importers of record, and in many cases, that means the refund may not go to the people who ultimately bore the tariff cost.”

Here’s a recap of the day so far

  • In a stunning rebuke against the Trump administration’s economic policy, the supreme court ruled many of the president’s sweeping tariffs illegal. In a 6-3 decision, the court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) – a 1977 statute which grants the president authority to regulate or prohibit certain international transactions during a national emergency – does not authorize Donald Trump to unilaterally impose the tariffs. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.

  • Trump, incensed but determined, assailed the ruling at an impromptu press conference. The president called the decision “deeply disappointing” and said he was “ashamed” of the justices who ruled against his use of IEEPA. He hurled insults at them while speaking to reporters, calling them “fools and lap dogs”, “very unpatriotic and disloyal to our constitution” and even made baseless claims that they were being swayed by “foreign interests”. In contrast, he praised the conservative justices who dissented, highlighting justice Brett Kavanaugh’s written opinion.

  • The president quickly announced that that he would impose 10% global tariffs under Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act. This statute allows the president impose levies for up to 150 days, before requiring congressional approval to extend them. He also stressed that the national‑security tariffs and those tied to “unreasonable” trade practices from other countries will stay in place.

  • When it comes to the refunds from the now-invalidated tarriffs already paid under IEEPA, Trump railed against the lack of guidance in the court’s ruling today. “What happens to all the money that we took in? It wasn’t discussed,” he told reporters. “Wouldn’t you think they would have put one sentence in there saying that keep the money or don’t keep the money … I guess it has to get litigated for the next two years.”

  • Lawmakers generally responded along party lines. Democrats welcomed the court’s decision, while many Republicans said they respected the ruling but would work with the administration to keep the tariffs in place. Trump, for his part, didn’t say whether he regretted nominating Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett to the bench after the sided with liberal justices today. Instead, he said their concurrence was “an embarrassment to their families”.

After Trump’s press conference today, Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren rebuked the president’s plan to use another statute to implement a 10% global tariff moving forward.

“Donald Trump illegally stole money from the American people. He should give it back to them,” she said. “Instead Trump is scheming up new ways to force Americans to pay even more.”

In a post on social media, vice-president JD Vance said the supreme court had effectively concluded that Congress “despite giving the president the ability to ‘regulate imports,’ didn’t actually mean it”.

Vance blasted the ruling – which found the administration’s use of IEEPA to justify its sweeping tariffs unconstitutional – as “la wlessness from the Court, plain and simple”. He argued the “only effect” would be to make it harder for the president to “protect American industries and supply chain resiliency.”

Throughout his press conference, Trump oscillated between railing against today’s supreme court ruling, and assuring reporters that his alternative avenues to implementing tariffs would result in getting the US “more money”.

“The process takes a little more time,” Trump said. “Great certainty has been brought back to the economy of the United States … we have the hottest country in the world. We’re going to keep it that way.”

An important note about today’s impromptu news conference – where Donald Trump assailed the supreme court’s ruling that struck down many of his tariffs. The president used the moment to underscore how deeply he prizes loyalty from the judiciary.

He blasted the justices who invalidated his use of IEEPA to impose sweeping levies as “fools and lap dogs”while singling out the three conservative dissenters – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh – for praise.

Trump highlighted Kavanaugh’s dissent, which argued that other legal pathways remain for a president to impose tariffs. Trump announced that he plans to pursue some of those options.

“I’m so proud of him,” the president said of Kavanaugh, whom he nominated in his first term, while lauding the justice’s “genius and his great ability”.

Donald Trump didn’t say whether he regretted nominating Neil Gorsuch or Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court, after they concurred that the president’s use of IEEPA to justify global tariffs is illegal in today’s ruling.

“I think the decision was terrible,” Trump said. “I think it’s an embarrassment to their families, if you want to know the truth, the two of them.”

Trump says that supreme court justices who ruled against sweeping tariffs are ‘barely’ invited to State of the Union

Donald Trump said today that the six supreme court justices who ruled agains his global tariffs under IEEPA are “barely” invited to next week’s State of the Union address at the US Capitol.

“Honestly, I couldn’t care less if they come,” the president said.

Donald Trump didn’t add any substantial evidence for his claims that justices on the supreme court who ruled against his IEEPA tariffs today are being “swayed by foreign interests”.

He didn’t name specific foreign actors, but claimed they have “undue influence” over some of the jurists.

“Whether it’s through fear or respect or friendships, I don’t know, but I know some of the people that were involved on the other side, and I don’t like them. I think they’re real slime balls,” Trump added.

When asked whether he plans to extend the 10% global tariffs indefinitely, Donald Trump seemed to completely ignore the framework of Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act – which he’s using to implement the duties.

“We have a right to do pretty much what we want to do,” he said, ignoring the statute’s requirement for the administration to receive congressional approval for tariffs beyond 150 days.

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