Catherine Rampell

But not only can he not deliver that, he can't even keep prices stable because he's doing all these things to make stuff worse, tariffs and muddying the Fed and deportations and everything else.

Probably.

No, the American people didn't do it.

The foreigners, the evil foreigners are paying the tariffs, according to Donald Trump.

I think the only plan Donald Trump ever has is sending out a check with his name on it.

And he has been pitching that for months now, both as a solution to people complaining about affordability, as a solution to people complaining about their

Healthcare premiums specifically getting more expensive just send people money.

And Donald Trump specifically is often claiming that he can use the abundant tariff revenue to pay for all of that.

Of course, they've also earmarked the tariff revenue to pay down the debt.

Everything.

There's just so much.

There's unlimited tariff money to pay for everything.

Of course, that's not the case.

And in fact, the Supreme Court may soon rule that they have to give all that tariff money back to your coffee purveyor and other companies that have actually.

Well, this would be the Supreme Court.

So what would happen here?

There would be in one sense, it could be like a real shot in the arm to the U.S.

economy because all of the sudden you have your coffee shop.

But, you know, retailers and every other company in America that has been footing the bill for these tariffs, suddenly they get a big cash infusion.

And they can start paying the bonuses that they've been holding off on or they can start buying up more inventory that they need, whatever it is.