President Donald Trump is heading into the first State of the Union address of his second term fresh off his biggest second term setback, and after a number of other stumbles that have some GOP allies beginning to push back.
The Supreme Court handed him a stinging defeat on Friday when it knocked down most of his global tariffs, prompting an angry response from Trump during an impromptu press briefing. In a vintage Trump move, on Saturday he increased a 10 percent replacement import fee to 15 percent, doubling down on a policy that has given some Republican lawmakers political heartburn.
“Congress has basically given the executive [branch] a lot of authority on tariffs,” said New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler on CNN Sunday. “Now you have the Supreme Court weighing in and saying, ‘No, Congress has a role.’ And so we are going to be working through that process as we move forward. And I think it’s going to be incumbent on the administration to sit down with Congress to determine the best path.”
