Gavin Bade

Absolutely.

I mean, he and his team would say, you know, we've used tariffs to not only get trade deals with other nations.

Right.

There was one signed with Indonesia yesterday.

And then he's also said, I use tariffs to prevent wars.

You know, whether or not that is true in every case, tariffs are a hammer and every single international issue is a nail to Trump.

He's used them for just about everything.

And they said, well, if you read the IEPA statute, it allows you to regulate imports.

It allows you to issue licensing fees.

And so although it doesn't say tariff in particular, well, you know, it allows us to do all these other things that should allow us to use tariffs as well.

The Supreme Court said not exactly correct.

You can regulate imports, you can put on licensing fees, you can even have an all-out blockade of certain imports and, you know, limit them completely, but it does not say tariff.

And so that's, you know, the Supreme Court got hung up on that, you know, pretty important distinction there.

And they said, you know, if it doesn't say that, we can't write it into the statute completely.

if Congress was going to give away that authority to the executive branch, it would have had to state it very explicitly.

And they said, this is just not the case.

They did not explicitly give away tariffing authority to the executive branch with this law.

If they were to do that, it would have to be, you know, clear as day.

It wouldn't be that they, oh, they...

Didn't write in tariff, but they meant tariff.