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that these other laws we're going to discuss generally don't allow him to do, is that AIPA allows him to sit down and fire off a truth and say, hey, I'm imposing an X percent tariff on that country over there.
And then he could go sign an executive order.
It allows him to do a lot and fast.
Trump loves that.
But there was a recent poll from the Pew Research Center that showed that half of Americans, including 20 percent of Republicans, which is a lot right now when Republicans love him,
They all say these tariffs affect them and their families negatively.
Half the country says they're negative.
He wants the power even if people don't like this, even if these tariffs make things less affordable.
What happens to all that money?
That is a great question.
That's the thing everybody's been asking after they've looked at these opinions, because
Going through it, the opinion striking down the tariffs does not mention refunds.
In fact, Justice Kavanaugh, in his dissent, really chided his colleagues, saying, in your opinion, you didn't say what's going to happen regarding refunds.
And so that's really not clear.
Now, today at that White House press briefing, President Trump was also not clear on what happens about refunds.
Here's what he said when he was asked about it.
But this is something that has been thought about, of course, for months, ever since the Supreme Court heard arguments.
And in those arguments, Neil Katyal, who represented the parties suing over these tariffs, he talked about what he thought could happen.
He said the specific companies in this case, which is to say only a couple of companies, they'll get their refunds.
But the other companies might have to go through an administrative process called an administrative protest where they –