Put together, it was validation for the retailers, free-market economists and old-school, business-friendly Republicans who have been warning about the potential long-term economic damage of Trump’s tariff regime and GOP prospects in the midterms. But few see much hope in pressing the White House’s self-described Tariff Man to pull back now.
“Outside of a court order, he’s going to push the limits,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who was one of five GOP senators to vote against the 50 percent tariff Trump slapped on Brazil this summer over diplomatic disputes, which Tillis said outstripped presidential authority.
The Supreme Court is now weighing that question vis-a-vis Trump’s moves to hike duties substantially on countries around the world, and Wednesday’s arguments raise the prospects they will strike at least some of them down. In theory, it could give the president an excuse to rein in some of his most controversial tariffs — and help Republicans defend against Democrats’ attacks on affordability.
Along with the rest of the world, the U.S. economy has been struggling with inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic, a reality Republicans campaigned on relentlessly
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