BREAKING: President Trump RAISES Global Tariffs in Response to Supreme Court Ruling

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After the Supreme Court ruled against President Trump’s tariffs, he’s only doubling down!

Today, President Trump announced that he is raising global tariffs from 10% to 15%, which he’s allowed to do under Section 122.

These tariffs will go into effect within the next few months.

Read President Trump’s full statement on Truth Social here:

Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday, after MANY months of contemplation, by the United States Supreme Court, please let this statement serve to represent that I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been “ripping” the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level. During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs, which will continue our extraordinarily successful process of Making America Great Again – GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Right after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday, President Trump announced 10% worldwide tariffs.

But, now he’s hiking them up to the maximum amount permitted under Section 122.

NBC News explained further:

Trump is implementing the new so-called global tariff under Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act, which is different than the law under which the prior tariffs were ruled illegal.

The 1974 law allows the president to institute a “temporary import surcharge” of up to 15% if he finds there are “large and serious United States balance of-payments deficits” or to “prevent an imminent and significant depreciation of the [U.S.] dollar in foreign exchange markets.”

Under this law, the tariffs can last for up to 150 days, after which Congress may have to take action to extend them. The law is also not clear on whether the administration could restart the tariffs immediately after the 150 days with another executive order.

At the same time as Trump implements this new sweeping tariff, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said that the administration would open Section 301 investigations on “most major trading partners” on an “accelerated timeframe.”

The investigations would allow the administration to impose tariffs under another section of the 1974 law if it finds that “the rights of the U.S. are being denied under any trade agreement, or whether any trade agreement is “unjustifiable and burdens or restricts United States commerce.”

It looks like “Plan B” is in full effect…

The Supreme Court should take note: this is what putting America First looks like!



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