With just days remaining until the Supreme Court could potentially strike down President Donald Trump’s claim of unprecedented emergency powers giving him the authority to unilaterally levy taxes on imports from nearly every American trading partner, the president is lashing out by warning of a parade of horribles that could result if the high court limits his power.
Writing Monday on Truth Social, Trump claimed a decision to strike down the massive tariffs he has placed on almost all imports since early April would require the U.S. to issue “hundreds of billions of dollars” to importers who paid the levies over the last nine months.
