President Donald Trump is lashing out at a U.S. appeals court that has ruled that most of his tariffs are not legal.
“ALL TARIFFS ARE STILL IN EFFECT!,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday night. “If these Tariffs ever went away, it would be a total disaster for the Country.”
On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Trump’s keystone economic policy exceeded his presidential authority. The court found that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) statute used by Trump to impose international tariffs does not “explicitly include the power to impose tariffs.”
“The statute bestows significant authority on the president to undertake a number of actions in response to a declared national emergency, but none of these actions explicitly include t