Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held.
Chapter 2: What recent Supreme Court decision impacts President Trump's tariff powers?
After the Supreme Court delivered a stunning decision against President Trump Friday saying he doesn't have the emergency powers to impose sweeping global tariffs, Trump says he's raising global tariffs by 15 percent under a different section of the Trade Act. They'd only be good for 150 days. And NPR's Mara Liason reports...
The timing puts a spotlight on a hot-button issue right around the midterm elections, with congressional Republicans seeking to retain their majority.
They thought that they would no longer have to defend these unpopular tariffs and maybe prices would go down. But that optimism lasted about five minutes because Trump immediately said that not only was he going to put more tariffs on under a different authority, but that authority calls for congressional approval.
So now Republicans in Congress are going to have to show their loyalty to Donald Trump by voting to impose tariffs, taking personal responsibility for this. This is something they don't want to do.
The Supreme Court did not lay out a way for U.S. businesses to possibly get refunds from the billions in tariffs now deemed illegal. A major winter storm is hitting the Northeast, with some areas expected to get more than two feet of snow. Thousands of flights canceled so far in the U.S. In New York City, the mayor has declared a state of emergency and a travel ban beginning tonight.
Steve Kastenbaum reports.
The snow started falling here around 11 a.m. and it's expected to continue through Monday morning, prompting Mayor Zoran Mamdani to To declare a travel ban, it goes into effect later in the evening.
We are asking New Yorkers to avoid all non-essential travel. Please, for your safety, stay home, stay inside, and stay off the roads.
The latest forecast says that New York could receive between 18 and 24 inches of snow, with the heaviest accumulations happening overnight. The blizzard prompted the school's chancellor to issue a rare snow day for the city's 940,000 public school students. For NPR News, I'm Steve Kastenbaum in New York.
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