What will Trump do if US Supreme Court strikes down global tariffs? Top aide speaks out | World News
The challenge to the levies being weighed at the Supreme Court marks a major test of presidential powers. (Photo: AP)
Days after US President Donald Trump claimed that it would be “impossible” for the country to pay back the money collected as tariffs, a top aide has revealed what the adminration would do if the Supreme Court struck down the president’s order.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told the New York Times
The adminration of President Donald Trump would enact new tariffs almost immediately if the Supreme Court struck down sweeping global tariffs the president launched under an emergency law, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told the New York Times in an interview published on Monday.
The Supreme Court could rule on the tariffs in the coming weeks, and possibly as early as Tuesday.
Greer said the adminration would “start the next day” to replace the tariffs with other levies, the Times reported.Story continues below this ad
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The challenge to the levies being weighed at the Supreme Court marks a major test of presidential powers as well as of the court’s willingness to check some of the Republican president’s far-reaching assertions of authority since he returned to office in January 2025.
The Trade Representative’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
