The White House is asking the Supreme Court for an expedited ruling to review an appeals court decision that said President Trump does not have the authority to implement most of his tariffs. In a 7-4 ruling, a federal appeals court rejected President Trump’s tariff strategy. In a White House news briefing, Trump said tariffs are a tool for negotiating trade. “If that ability were taken away from us by a liberal court, acting on, essentially, foreign nations asking to get help from the United States government, when they’ve been doing this to us for 40 years, that’s why we have $38 trillion in debt,” said Trump. “We won’t have it for long if they allow us to do what everybody knows we should be able to do.” If tariffs are taken away, Trump said the United States would end up being a third-world country. The appeals court ruling does not take effect until October 14 to allow the Administration time to ask the Supreme Court to intervene.
