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I mean, it was the centerpiece, arguably, of his foreign policy.

He used it often for economic reasons, but he also tried to use it to cut peace deals.

We know that the president is very determined to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

He repeatedly brags about how many conflicts he's solved overseas.

And at the core of some of those strategies was threatening tariffs on countries if they didn't, in his words, lay down their arms and stop fighting.

And so it dramatically changes his negotiating position on the world stage because he's unable to, as Anna very clearly laid out,

apply different tariff rates to different countries at a whim.

And I think it left a lot of foreign leaders uncertain about what move they made and whether or not they could be punished by the president for whatever they might do.

That uncertainty has been diminished in some ways because the president can't just unilaterally apply different tariffs to different countries on any given day.

This is new for President Trump.

Congress, controlled by Republicans, has largely gone along with everything he's wanted to do.

And the Supreme Court had not limited his power in any major way before this decision.

And so for the president, it's a moment where he has to reckon with the checks and balance inherent in the Constitution that for most of his first year in office, he has not really felt constrained by.

Yeah.

I mean, we know that Trump is immediately responding by trying to put on these tariffs and just disregarding Congress, which if he really wanted to pursue these tariffs that he initially put on, he could go down the path of using the legislative branch.

But right now, Trump is not interested in that.

He likes to do things unilaterally, and he likes to do things quickly.

And so this is a significant moment in which Trump has to readjust to a real constraint on his power.

Thanks so much, Natalie.

How long do you think you'll be running Venezuela?