President Donald Trump announced Friday, in response to the Supreme Court striking down his imposition of tariffs using emergency statutory authority, that he will go in a “different direction” — but toward the same goal.
“Probably the direction that I should have gone the first time, but I read the language — and I’m very good at reading language — and it read our way 100 percent. But now I’ll go the way I could have gone originally,” he said.
“Which is even stronger than our original choice.”
In April, Trump imposed tariffs under a 1977 emergency powers law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, citing a record $1.4 trillion trade deficit in 2024.
In Friday’s 6-3 ruling, the high courtheldthat the IEEPA “does not authorize the President to impose tariffs.”
However, legal experts have noted that Trump hasother statutory authorityto impose tariffs, but they may take a little longer to implement.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, Trump noted that some of the tariffs that he imposed on China, Mexico, and Canada in relation tofentanylcoming into the U.S. remain in place.
Further, he said, “But other alternatives will now be used to replace the ones that the court incorrectly rejected.”
“We have alternatives, great alternatives. Could be more money,” he said. “We’ll take in more money, and we’ll be a lot stronger for it. We were taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. We’ll continue to do so.”
.@POTUS: “Other alternatives will now be used to replace the ones that the Court incorrectly rejected.”pic.twitter.com/XFxo7vazoO
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