Randy Fine
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What the Supreme Court is saying is not that the president can't impose tariffs.
Well, they're not saying he can't impose tariffs.
They're saying he didn't have the congressional authority to impose tariffs.
So we have a choice.
We have a choice.
And look, it may make us blow up the filibuster in the Senate, but we do have a slight majority in the House.
Please do.
And we do have a slight majority in the Senate.
And so we, as a Congress, can choose to give him that power.
Because what President Trump has done is he has brought in an extraordinary amount of money to the country in the form of these tariffs, which really are just sales taxes on foreign goods.
He's reduced the trade deficit.
He's making people invest in this country.
He's bringing down the deficit.
And he is using it to wield other people.
And what the Supreme Court is not doing is saying other countries can't tariff us.
And that is what is – apparently everyone thinks tariffs are a great idea when China and Europe and everyone else does it to the United States.
But it's the worst idea in the world when we do it back.
So I think what people ought to be doing is picking up the phone, calling their congressmen and say, fine, if the Supreme Court says the president doesn't have the power, then you all give it to him.
I think he has other tools in the tool chest.
Such as what?