"Hours earlier, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump's sweeping tariffs with the U.S.'s trade partners were illegal. In his majority opinion the, Chief Justice John Roberts declared that Trump must identify clear congressional authorization before using his extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. Trump lashed out in his Friday afternoon press conference in response, saying he was absolutely ashamed by the ruling and even accusing the Supreme Court of being compromised by foreign interests."
"No, I don't need to. It's already been approved. I mean, I would ask Congress and probably get it. When people look at the real numbers, and you look at hundreds of billions of dollars that have come into our country yesterday I was at a steel plant, as you know, and I went to a great, great place, great plant, great, wonderful people, and they were telling me, I said to them you were there, a lot of the press in this room. Of course, I don't think this plane is big enough to take the press in this room."
Supreme Court ruled Trump's sweeping tariffs with U.S. trade partners were illegal and Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that Trump must identify clear congressional authorization before using extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. Trump responded at a Friday press conference, calling the ruling shameful and accusing the Supreme Court of being compromised by foreign interests. He vowed to pursue alternative methods to maintain his tariff-backed economic policy. When asked whether he would seek congressional action, he said he did not need Congress, claiming approval was already in place and citing recent economic inflows and a steel plant visit.
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