The revenge on America tour
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Well, it didn’t take long for the backup plan in response to the Court striking down Trump’s illegal tariffs to be announced, and it’s a 10% across the board tax in time for the midterms:
President Donald Trump announced he will enact a new 10 percent global tariff following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down many of his original tariffs on Friday.
Trump said at a press conference he will maintain many existing tariffs and impose the new tariffs under a different statute. The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, rejected the administration’s authority to implement tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
However, one point raised by the majority opinions in today’s decision is that when Congress does actually delegate the power to impose tariffs, it doesn’t give unlimited authority. And the new tariff regime, in addition to sunsetting, present substantially less opportunity for corruption:
While Trump could have gone as high as 15 percent under Section 122, the move will allow him to reimpose his sweeping global baseline tariffs for 150 days. It would take Congress to extend it beyond that time.
In the short term, it would allow the president to at least temporarily reimpose some level of his tariffs that the high court struck down. Trump said Friday he believed the new tariffs would go into effect in three days.
Yet, it won’t allow the president the kind of flexibility he has wielded under the emergency powers law. By statute, the tariff must be “nondiscriminatory,” meaning the U.S. can’t give breaks to certain trading partners and not others.
Meanwhile, this is a good political response to the tariffs that were illegal:
NEW: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sent Trump a letter and an invoice demanding the return of $8.6 billion taken from Illinois families after the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs are illegal.
[image or embed]— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) Feb 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM
“It’s your money, he stole it, but he’s keeping it” is an excellent message for 2026.