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In a social media post at midnight, Donald Trump claims he has the “absolute right” to impose new tariffs It comes after the Supreme Court ruled last year that most of the import duties it imposed were illegal.
My colleague Callum Jones reported that the president attacked the court late at night on Truth Social on Sunday, accusing it of being “unnecessarily ransacked” by the United States and not showing sufficient loyalty to him.
In February, the high court ruled that the Trump administration had not provided sufficient legal justification to exercise this right. International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) A 1977 law designed to address national emergencies accounts for most of the tariffs the Trump administration has imposed on countries around the world.
Callum says the administration has struggled in recent weeks to reassemble its contentious trade agenda and regain economic advantage.
In response, Trump quickly imposed a 10% tariff on goods from most parts of the world under a different law, Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. However, these expire after 150 days, in July. The president has also promised to increase this provisional tax to 15 percent, but has not yet done so.
U.S. officials last week launched a series of trade investigations that set the stage for the potential imposition of a new wave of permanent tariffs to replace the repeals.
In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump wrote:
Our Supreme Court made these countries very happy, but as the Court stated, I have the absolute right to charge tariffs in a different way, and I have started to do so.”
Meanwhile, severe weather conditions across much of the US mean the House will not vote todaysaid GOP House majority whip Tom Emmer. The first votes in the parliament are expected to be held on Tuesday.
Donald Trump is in Washington today. We can expect to see the president with his vice president, J.D. Vance, later. This will be the first time we will hear from both of them together since the war against Iran began. The Oval Office meetings will be open to the press at 3:30 pm ET, so we’ll give you the latest..
In between closed-door policy meetings and administration time, Trump will attend lunch with Kennedy Center board members at 11:45 a.m. ET and meet with George Glass, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, at 4 p.m. ET.
We’ll provide updates here if anything else pops up.
Although Trump in his speech on Truth Social was praised conservative justices on the bench who supported his rationale for tariffs –Clarence ThomasSamuel Alito And Brett Kavanaugh – but criticized the other judges as “completely incompetent and disgraceful”.
This is the latest example of the president’s attack on the judiciary, which he perceives as a personal and political attack on his political agenda.
on social mediahe also targeted James BoasbergD.C.-based federal judge who blocks justice department subpoenas for Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.
The president said Boasberg was suffering from “the ultimate Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).” and “demonstrated clear, flagrant, and extreme partisan bias” against Republicans and the White House. Boasberg, it’s a reminder, was also the judge who ruled in April last year that the Trump administration acted in “bad faith” by using the rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelans to a major prison in El Salvador.
Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog.
In a social media post at midnight, Donald Trump claims he has the “absolute right” to impose new tariffs It comes after the Supreme Court ruled last year that most of the import duties it imposed were illegal.
My colleague Callum Jones reported that the president attacked the court late at night on Truth Social on Sunday, accusing it of being “unnecessarily ransacked” by the United States and not showing sufficient loyalty to him.
In February, the high court ruled that the Trump administration had not provided sufficient legal justification to exercise this right. International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) A 1977 law designed to address national emergencies accounts for most of the tariffs the Trump administration has imposed on countries around the world.
Callum says the administration has struggled in recent weeks to reassemble its contentious trade agenda and regain economic advantage.
In response, Trump quickly imposed a 10% tariff on goods from most parts of the world under a different law, Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. However, these expire after 150 days, in July. The president has also promised to increase this provisional tax to 15 percent, but has not yet done so.
U.S. officials last week launched a series of trade investigations that set the stage for the potential imposition of a new wave of permanent tariffs to replace the repeals.
In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump wrote:
Our Supreme Court made these countries very happy, but as the Court stated, I have the absolute right to charge tariffs in a different way, and I have started to do so.”
Meanwhile, severe weather conditions across much of the US mean the House will not vote todaysaid GOP House majority whip Tom Emmer. The first votes in the parliament are expected to be held on Tuesday.
