The Supreme Court is now weighing whether President Trump’s tariffs, which hinge on a specified economic emergency power, can remain intact. It leaves one of his biggest policy initiatives hanging in the balance.

While upholding the tariffs would mark a vast expansion of presidential power, striking them down could unleash a host of dilemmas for Trump — from mass payouts to finding new legal authority to push his priorities across the line.

What would await the administration, in the words of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is “a mess.”

Refunds for companies

The Trump administration has acknowledged that a Supreme Court loss would mean refunds of the billions in tariff revenue already collected.

It convinced lower courts to pause their rulings invalidating the tariffs in part

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