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Well, say goodbye to the tariffs. No more leverage… and the swamp celebrates…
The six ways to Sunday cabal is still in control. 😡
Other tariff authorities remain intact and available: The decision is narrow—it only blocks tariffs specifically under IEEPA. Tariffs imposed under longstanding trade laws like Section 232 (national security, e.g., on steel, aluminum, or other metals) and Section 301 (unfair trade practices, especially against China) are unaffected and stay in place. Administration officials and analysts have already signaled they plan to pivot quickly to these tools to reimpose similar (or adjusted) duties, keeping much of the trade pressure and revenue stream alive. This avoids a total collapse of his tariff strategy.
In short, this is mostly bad news for the core of his tariff-heavy economic plan, but he retains fallback options that could blunt the impact and allow him to continue aggressive trade policies. If more develops (like a Trump statement or follow-up actions), it could shift the picture to a positive outcome.
Needed this positive take badly. Thank you Mrs. Sunshine
IF I read it right doesn;t POTUS retain the right to regulate imports meaning
he can just says we don;t need Canadian steel so we won;t acccept any
into the country.
Yes. Whereas before Trump was using tariffs lower profit margins to achieve a desired outcome, now he will instead prohibit targeted products leaving no profit whatsoever.
SCOTUS took away President Trump’s flyswatter and encouraged him to use his sniper rifle instead.
Edit: grammar corrected
We always knew this would be a convoluted Ruling. The SCOTUS would prohibit some stuff. Close some doors but leave some windows open.
No one wants to have to climb out of a window, but Trump will do it to get what he wants.
💯
I seem to remember a video of him hurdling a fence to avoid crowds at some event during his first campaign.
As a former athlete, President Trump has always displayed exceptional agility for his size.
I think we’re about to be treated to yet another splendid end run.
Yes, I remember that, quite clearly! He was on his way to a rally – on that very same day, the former Mitt Romney now known as Pierre Delecto gave a stupid speech about Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump and that speech was a fizzle-fazzle.
That must have been the one that started my arrhythmia. No kidding.
When everyone knew he was the real one.
Not what he WANTS but what he NEEDS to correct our slide into Communism. I am sure he WANTS to play golf and not have these creeps in black robes thwart every attempt to stop the Titanic from going to the bottom of the sea.
God bless you and thank you, Mrs. Sunshine – now I take a good deep breath and another sip of coffee while it is hot!
Unfair trade practices, Section 301, seems to cover any country that has high tariffs on our goods or doesn’t allow our products at all.
So Canada won’t be able to sell their cheap Chinese battery powered cars in the USA, I hope and pray?
I always thought those under IEEPA were kind of going to be weakened as applicable. Hopefully the Trump team is ready to go asap on redoing those tariffs affected.
Unfortunately, the insinuation that PTrump lost something major and the exaggerations will be epic from the left now. Campaign fodder for the midterms for sure and for the way the other two branches will react to this. What will Thune and Johnson make out of it?
Art of the Deal…
Go to the extreme, lose a little, what remains is more than sufficient with much less outrage than had the extreme not been pursued.
Your insights are always much appreciated by reactionaries like me, when good folks get what I perceive to be bullied.🥂
Ditto!
And I say that in fond memory of Rush Limbaugh especially because today is Friday and Fridays were always great on Rush!
Tariff Refund Question – Since we have been told over and over that Companies pass the cost of tariffs onto their customers, shouldn’t the Refunds go to the Customers instead of the companies?
“Go to the extreme, lose a little”
Trump is a master. By doing the tariffs first, they found out what their opponents will or won’t give up to make the best deal.
Now, armed with the knowledge of which countries are willing to provide the best deals on different products, Trump goes into the area armed with an even bigger gun – the licenses!!
Love him or hate him, that was brilliant!!!!
How on earth did they keep the licenses on the down low until the day before the SC decision???
It’s fact out there for all to see, nothing secret about it. Amazing this wasn’t discussed previously.
Not a bad take.
Why do I anticipate a newsworthy response by PDJT and team which will specifically clarify their ability to use other existing tariff/trade policies and that the actions and information they obtained using IEEPA strategy has been of great benefit and use in future trade actions?????
Yes! Why does no one understand this?
..because fake news doesn’t ever explain the issues correctly?
Always with their Sound and Fury,… signifying Nothing,… but BS and pablum for their loinfo base ‘gimmie dats!”
It’s still “The Economy, Stupid!”,… the Middle Class voters will support Trump’s tariffs to grow our economy, re-industrialize the USA, lower inflation and raise earnings/salaries,…. regardless of the Marxist Dims’ cheer leading Robert’s incorrect reading of the IEEP Act and his faulty ruling today.
Results,….. Trump will keep his tariffs via other applicable Congressional laws and historical Potus practice without going Andrew Jackson on SCOTUS,… and the Middle Class voters will give him another win in the Mid Terms, just like in November 2024.
It’s always The Economy.
The same idiots who say that the BLS removing the 1,000,000 fake jobs they reported during the BIDEN administration means the Trump economy is crashing, will say that this ruling keeps Trump from using Tariffs in the future.
Roberts wrote the opinion. ACB and Gorsuch concurred. The RINO wing of the Court was all onboard.
They timed the release of this opinion to hit the news cycle right before the State of the Union speech on Tuesday. (Probably to try to undercut President Trump’s message about all the successes he has had.)
My thinking is that an attack on Iran will happen before the SOTU. PDJT will add that to his list and the democrats strategy of a non-attendance rally that is meant to pull democrats away from good economic news will backfire because everyone will pay attention to Trump about Iran and ignore democrats.
ACB is the biggest disappointment since Justice David Souter!!! No more female Justices with young children and adopted children of color!!! The virtue signaling of ACB should have been a tell that she wasn’t into MAGA or making America First!!! JMO
These rich women with children and adopted children just hire nannies to raise the children-all of them. They are too important to dirty their hands with child care.
They just say, “I love children, I’m a great Mother”, hand the child off for someone else to raise and blame the nanny when the child throws a temper tantrum and hits his Mother.
They also get to virtue signal that they are such good humans when they adopt children of 3rd world countries.
Or any that wear braids.
That last was somewhat jaded, and I’m sorry to say I’m in complete agreement with your assessment!
You may be on to something.
If these three Rino Justices show up in person for Trump’s SOTU, will they walk out on him with the rest of the immature, tantrum prone Marxist Dims Congresscritters? Why not, Roberts’ ruling today amounts to SCOTUS Legislating from the bench, not an accurate judicial ruling.
We’re suppose to have three co-equal branches of Govt, not two legislative branches.
If the present trend continues, this will end up with the acme bomb blowing up in the left’s coyote face.
Thank you, and from keeping me from jumping off a bridge
True. I’m hyperventilating.
Me too!
You’re welcome. Blessed to be of service.
They don’t call you Sunshine for no reason, lol.
Anyway a “win” for the other side will be leveraged for optics going forward. It’s what they do every time.
We should be used to that by now. Fake news is as fake news does.
The trick is to turn off that noise and log onto whitehouse dot gov for the *real* news.
Thank you for your informative reply. 👍
It is not “aggressive” trade policy to finally reciprocate trade tariffs on nations which have aggressively used them against us for decades.
Given the fact that inflation didn’t skyrocket as the Left/RINOs said it would with these tariffs, why not send a legislative package to Congress to see if they’d pass it? I don’t think they would but some fence-sitters would have to explain why they’d vote against letting American’s best negotiator to have the tools he needs to improve our Country.
Also note, Trump’s diversity hire continues to disappoint. She’s quickly turning into the female version of Roberts. Wonder what they’ve got on her?
I thought she looked compromised from day one in the Rose Garden – she had a pained, aggrieved expression but then I thought maybe her shoes were hurting her feet, maybe she had her shoes on backwards (you know, left shoe on right foot, etc.)
Thank you.
Thank you, Mrs. Sunshine – I really appreciate that!
The opinion clearly says the President can “regulate” trade under IEEPA. He cannot unilaterally impose tariffs because tariffs are a power reserved to the Congress.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf
So all the President needs to do is tell all our trade partners their exports to the USA are now being “regulated” (not tariffed) and there is a 10% baseline regulatory fee, plus whatever punitive fees they had been paying.
A “regulatory fee” would make it even more clear that US taxpayers are not bearing the costs of the tariffs or fees regardless of what they are called. Economic data – import prices, trade deficit numbers, CPI – all confirm without any doubt that US consumers were not paying for the tariffs.
Yep, the tariff strategy will just pivot. Plans were already in place before the SC ruling, PDJT will out-fox them… again 😃.
Imh, it will harm the small caps in the short term. Their the ones benefitting the most.
Update: Markets shrugged the tariff news off. I only had 1 small cap in the red!! ( still in a pullback)
Thanks, Mrs. Sunshine. And honorable mention to Toolnut who posted this on Wednesday:
Keep the faith, Brethren.
“Toolnut
February 18, 2026 2:40 pm
PDJT’s ace in the hole if tariffs struck down. Might work out better.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/02/12/breitbart-business-digest-the-trump-administrations-hidden-ace-to-rebalance-trade-even-if-tariffs-are-struck-down/
Take the time to read it.”
Unflipping real.
Traitors at the highest court. The work-arounds are ready, hopefully, as I believe President Trump knows the SC is hopelessly corrupt. NONE of them understand business.
And what a surprise, ACB, neither a conservative nor a Constitutionalist, sided with the communist dems.
The SC is playing with words. Meaninglessly. The power to regulate Commerce rests with Congress, which can use whatever terminology it likes. The intent of the Law is not dependent on the words used.
Not sure what you mean? Are you agreeing with the decision by your statement that “The power to regulate Commerce rests with Congress….”
Commerce means driving to a grocery store to most of Congress and they ‘have people for that’.
I believe we all should understand SCOTUS stands ONLY to interpret Constitutional issues. In this case, this was their interpretation. They don’t need to understand economics.
I absolutely hate this decision.
Roberts, as SC Justice, can send the IEEP Act back to Congress for it to be amended as he desires today, if he finds it wanting,…. but he can’t re-legislate it from the SCOTUS.
He misinterprets the IEEP Act of 1977 that clearly grants POTUS the legal authority to declare a National Security Emergency and then Regulate Imports, in this case, via President Trump’s Tariffs.
His National Security Emergency was/is the hundreds of thousands of USA Citizens poisoned and murdered by Fentanyl imported from Chi-Nah, Canada and Mexico. And, he also sited all those nations that use tariffs to harm our national economy via deficits as a national security emergency.
The Supremes can go straight to 👹🔥 along with rogue lower court judiciary.
This special invitation is extended to vile legislative slime like McStain, Feinstein– and the rest of the demons who have stabbed our Republic in the back on this 250th year.
👿 🔥 👿🔥👿🔥
This should be a time to be celebratory — not funereal!
God bless and protect America and her patriots!
❤️🤍💙
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So, prices should go down, right?
I mean, the left claims that tariffs are not helping the economy — some even say that tariffs are hurting the economy — so them getting their way will yield a better economy according to their logic.
Let’s see how AOC (an economics major, huh, Sandy) explains how this will be a ‘boon’ for these United States and its people . . .
The tariffs are not going to end, they’ll just shift them onto a different path there- so to speak.
AOC will now explain how her lipsticks and other makeup products she shows how to use on you tube will be much cheaper now.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-rules-tariffs
The faux CONservative justices play the same game as the faux republican’t CONgress.
They take turns joining the communist left as needed to keep the status quo.
As always, Thomas & Alito are the only 2 that are reliable originalists. May God protect them from harm.
Crap……..
The Israel/US vs Iran War……
is guaranteed now…..
I didn’t vote for more wars.
The globalists actually want WWIII with Russia using Ukraine. That’s been their end goal since at least 2013.
Who is going to fight it for them? None of the Western European countries are capable.
Praying.
Incredibly painful to me as just one person thinking of the Supreme Court cutting the floor out under the President, most especially with two people that he put ON the court. Dear God please watch over our beautiful country and our wonderful President!
Gee. The market is up following the ruling bc it was NOT a surprise to anyone. Relax people. Let this play out.
A temporary minor setback. Forward! Always forward!
Mrs. Sunshine has her usual succinct and accurate take below, if you haven’t read it yet, it will calm you:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/02/20/february-20th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-397/comment-page-2/#comment-12422849
SC struck down Tariffs.
The tariff decision (which is the only opinion issued today):
ROBERTS, C. J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II–A–1, and II–B, in which SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, GORSUCH, BARRETT, and JACKSON, JJ., joined, and an opinion with respect to Parts II–A–2 and III, in which GORSUCH and BARRETT, JJ., joined. GORSUCH, J., and BARRETT, J., filed concurring opinions. KAGAN, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which SOTOMAYOR and JACKSON, JJ., joined .JACKSON, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion. KAVANAUGH, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS and ALITO, JJ., joined. ”
No, don’t ask me to sort this out.
ACB is our fly in the ointment.
It was obvious from the get go – she’s one of those upper middle class suburban white women that make everyone and everything around them miserable.
She’s an AWFUL She’s the mom you hate at the class party or PTO meeting.
Even at the announcement of her appointment she was making bad faces at President Trump because she hates him like all her kind.
I use Thomas and Alito as a type of shorthand on any judgment from the court; if both of them agree that is the correct decision that the court should have came to.
What does this mean for the U.S. economy under Trump? Was this a split, or unanimous decision?
See my post above. Split? I’d say more splintered, but the end result was that Trump could not rely on the statute that he did to impose tariffs.
I hate to say that I think they’re correct as the law reads. The tariffs are based on a declared emergency and that’s a pretty big stretch.
I want the president to be able to act in the absence of a functioning Congress, but this one was tough.
I tend to agree with you. “Emergency” is an elastic term, and the majority apparently didn’t believe we were in one. And this opinion could tie the hands of a Dem president some day.
Wethal, can you elaborate on that point?
Much of the direction in which Supreme Court case law has moved over the last few years is towards a weaker central government, albeit also toward a stronger executive (see, e.g. US v. Trump). With a few exceptions, it has been moving towards a restoration of the original Constitution and the dismantling of the “fourth branch” the States never authorized.
How does this ruling fit in, when framed in that light? Is it a continuation, or an aberration?
I favor a slightly different view. The administrative part of the executive branch has slowly encroached on the president’s powers, as well as those of the judiciary.
Last year in Jarkesy, the Court ruled that the SEC could not hold “trials” as part of its securities enforcement because the alleged offenses were really common law crimes, and the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial in district court for these offenses. (SEC lawyers were charging people with securities offenses that were then adjudicated by an SEC judge.)
In Loper-Bright, the Court reversed an old opinion, Chevron, which directed the courts to defer to administrative agencies when determining the scope of an agency’s authority. The Court said the district court judges should determine the scope of the statute.
I guess that’s my point. SCOTUS has been lopping off the administrative state incursions on not just the executive but also the legislative and judicial branches.
From the major questions doctrine meaning Congress actually has to legislate not just delegate, to restoring the Seventh Amendment, to confirming the unitary executive, thereby restoring key unreviewable Executive Branch powers to the President, bit by bit, SCOTUS has been neutering the key DS Operating System.
So, looking forward ten years, does the underlying reasoning of this decision – *given the splits I’m not sure that is really discernible – what wins? The original Constitution, or the Administrative State (which is just the British System in disguise?)
i am a firm believer in the rule of law, but not suicide; in this moment we should forget what the majority of the court believes and judge for ourselves whether we are in an emergency or not. See my post:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/02/20/february-20th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-397/#comment-12423183
But it won’t apply to Democrat because a Democrat is able to do anything they want to do. See President Obama and Susan Rice for details about how this works.
I saw a post somewhere that revealed the ‘state of emergency’ we were moved into following the 9/11 attacks was never ended.
The post was saying that this country has been operating within a state of emergency for 20 years now.
So if this can be proven to be accurate, this should have certainly been a part of the conversation at the SC.
I don’t know if that is true or not, but the actual emergency is quite different; see my post:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/02/20/february-20th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-397/#comment-12423183
I would agree to a large extent as to the way the law reads, and also by the admonition to imagine the same power used in the hands of the other side.
I would however have to stridently disagree that it is any kind of stretch that we are in an emergency. I would respectfully ask you to consider this:
Our enemy, who has been successful at incrementally destroying our Constitution with their main weapon of economic attack since 1913, at which time the structural system for doing so was installed via the 16th and 17th amendments and the Federal Reserve Act–reconciled and passed in a brazen manner when many of its opponents had already left DC for Christmas–was ingenuously forced on us.
We are now at the dire point where either Team Freedom or Team Slavery is going to the boneyard.
It is not just an emergency, it is an existential moment for the light of liberty.
What this British Columbian finds staggering is amount of unelected power many countries have given their respective countries.
Bolsanero is in Gaol, our Canadian Courts are statists.
Many law abiding folks , and decent folks we know.
Have over the last several years developed a complete distrust and disgust with all of the legal system.
This cannot end well.
Cheers!
The United States is a federal republic with enumerated (listed) powers. Although the language in the allocation of power to the three branches is broad, and has been broadly interpreted by liberal justices and administrations over the last century, the drafters of the Constitution wisely added the Tenth Amendment when they added a bill of rights as amendments to the Constitution:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Cheers!
You and Mrs Sunshine are an educational goldmine!
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This is due to mainly to the populace of Western Civilization not to force education to thoroughly teach their children on how to defend their God given rights, as well as the importance of doing so, rather than indoctrinate them in a less obvious method of the Prussian system.
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” — Thomas Jefferson
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.
They are tying his hands. They do not want an improved economy under President Trump.
Yes and more broadly, it throws power back to the globalist cabal.
Chalk one up for Wall Street, Main Street and the populists took a hit.
Our legislators have the power, per the Supreme Court, to rectify this. The same group that have been selling out the people and got us into this mess.
Exactly.
At this point, President Trump needs to use all of his constitutional power and go scorched earth, in my opinion.
The ptb will never let up and playing soft will get us nowhere.
Yep. I suspect that the failure of the ruling to address refunds of taxes collected was intentional, and it provides a broad license for rogue judges hearing hundreds of cases regarding same to constrain and/or further limit the President’s economic agenda while the litigation pervades the balance of his presidency.
Moreover, whatever the President’s “workarounds” may be, it is very likely that they will be immediately challenged in carefully selected courts to assure they are indefinitely impaired and/or delayed.
Never ending…diabolical traitors, imo.
it means we should spend less. a LOT less.
Exactly Muley Bulley. Add to that a very poor GDP number for the 4thQ (see below) and we may very well have an economic “emergency”. There are so many red flags right now with the economy…despite the efforts, things don’t look great for this year. Perhaps when everyone gets their tax return, purchasing will heat up…remains to be seen.
https://x.com/NoLimitGains/status/2024857742746280396
#starvethebeast
That would seem an appropriate response, but making us poorer, while restricting Trump’s best weapon–which may be the one he is most proficient at–would only give our enemies more of an advantage.
We shouldn’t be upset about the decision. None of the tariff $$$ would ever have gone to balance the budget or reduce the deficit. It was being spent on star wars, battleships and other insanity.
When you give the government money they squander it. Look at the fraud debacle in Minneapolis, Maine and Los Angeles. Every program is a scam!
Wait until we have to refund it all to China and other countries. This was SCOTUS making sure Trump will have no ability to avoid wars or save our economy.
Once the Democrats take the House or House and Senate in the midterms, not one thing will be done to further the Trump agenda and he may well be impeached and removed.
Once the Democrats get the Whitehouse and Congress in 2028, the US will cease to exist. Take a look at CA, CO, WA, VA that’s our future.
From Breitbart
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/02/12/breitbart-business-digest-the-trump-administrations-hidden-ace-to-rebalance-trade-even-if-tariffs-are-struck-down/
“IEEPA doesn’t just let the president regulate imports. It lets him prohibit them. And it lets him issue licenses as exceptions to that prohibition. Those aren’t implied powers or creative readings. They’re right there in the text of the law: the president may ‘prevent or prohibit’ importation and may act ‘by means of instructions, licenses, or otherwise.’
That language points to a mechanism that could reshape the global trade landscape even if every tariff the administration has imposed gets struck down.”
Yes. PDJT is authorized to use the hammer without the velvet glove.
When necessary, President Trump can simply prohibit importation. The decision of SCOTUS will create worse economic outcomes for the importers of the products that will be prohibited instead of tariffed.
We can definitely use a whole lot less of the Chinese Junk in America.
Our landfills are horrendously over loaded with it all.. so not even bringing it here is the answer as far as I’m concerned.
What we lose in tariffs, we’d gain back in other ways, like saving the cost of dealing with all the cheap Chinese shit that has turned our country into a junk pile..
When we need storage units on every flat piece of land to store all this junk, clearly there is a deep problem.
Quit the addiction cold turkey, don’t even allow the junk to come into our country.
IF this is how this winds up going, it’s a win in the big picture.
Brightly-colored plastic junk from Chy-na- on sale now! at Walmart.
(From Just the News) The supreme court opinion included this preamble …. “We claim no special competence in matters of economics or foreign affairs. We claim only, as we must, the limited role assigned to us by Article III of the Constitution. Fulfilling that role, we hold that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs,….”
In other words, the court did not rule if the President applied the law (IEEPA) correctly but ruled that President Trump is not allowed to use “tariffs” as a mechanism under the IEEPA. Licenses and some nebulous undefined “otherwise” and/or “instructions” (which the courts will allow) will have to be used.
This is BS ruling that is aimed specifically at President Trump, just like all the other lawfare the Supreme Court and congress allow the Federal Court system to apply without remedy.
The use of the phrase “We claim no special competence in matters of economics…” is also ironic since the Federal Courts Manual (Guide) includes the evaluation of “economic impact” as being part of the Federal Court’s deliberative process. This Supreme Court actually upheld lawfare findings by lower Courts 2017-2020 based on “matters of economic”.
As expected any rulings directly impacting the money and power of the puppet masters is not going to be supported by the Article III Judicial Branch. In fact the majority opinion authored by the Chief Justice is so “Justice Roberts” …. selectively narrowing his constitutional scope when it suits his need for cover.
When the government issues a licence it is limited to charge only the cost of issuance!
True, the government does not directly collect on the “impact” of the license’s terms and conditions beyond the cost of the license charged by the Government but the there are costs and legal inhibitions to those who receive those licenses via the limits the licenses impose. Those costs and legal limits will have the same desired impact on the US Domestic Economy as the tariff (i.e. force a cost benefit assessment that has industrial capability staying or moving back to the US). It has the secondary impact of removing a source of cheap growth and capitalization from US Economic Adversaries.
There are also “FINES” (paid to the US Government) for violating the terms and conditions of a License Agreement, once issued.
As was proved 2017-2020, when industry and capital moves back ON-SHORE, tax revenues actually increased (without raising domestic tax rates and even with the tax breaks of 2017) …. so the loss of the tariff revenue is balanced.
Congress has the Constitutional duty to regulate “commerce,” and it can – and did – delegate tremendous power and discretion to “the President.” It enacted legislation which allowed the President to declare an “economic emergency,” and to immediately respond to it in any one of several prescribed ways.
There’s nothing that the SCOTUS or any other Court can do. The law was written as it was written, and Trump (like many preceding Presidents) is exercising it “as written.”
Congress can do anything that it likes to change the Laws that it made.
Other nations do not like it. But, they’re not supposed to. Rest assured, however, that they impose sometimes-onerous tariffs upon us! (Tariffs are, in fact, a routine “cost of goods sold” in all international trade. We’ve just been far too generous.)
The Trump admin knew this! I imagine they had a hearty laugh thinking about all their enemies smug faces turning into shocked faces when they realize the tariffs were just Trump’s opening act and the REAL game is about to begin.
Our founders were brilliant! This prevents a corrupt Congress and judiciary from having powers that belong to the President.
Amazing!!!
This. The admin tried to play nice in its economic diplomacy. Since Congress won’t act to defend Americans’ interests, the president will now do it the hard way.
Wethal: “Those aren’t implied powers or creative readings. They’re right there in the text of the law”
It would be interesting to know specifically which forefather is responsible those powers being penned into law!
They may well be responsible for saving our republic on its 250th birthday!
Lol. FAFO! Lots of investors will be smiling or crying big time when those licenses kick in.
I imagine there are MANY people who were betting big on (or had insider info about) the SC striking down the tariffs.
The smarter people would have hedged their bets more accurately, knowing this tool was at Trump disposal. They can’t call it insider trading because they had no way to know or control which way the SC would rule.
Expect some whiplash and wailing as they realize the media failed to warn them.
True and this ruling may have opened a massive can of worms the Puppet Masters may regret.
Think of ALL the existing licenses used by US Puppet Masters to EXPORT US capabilities off-shore and IMPORT Stuff into the US … that are ALREADY granted and administered by the US Government Executive Branch. These are now fair game for re-evaluation as well. This is especially true for the EXPORT Licenses, which are the major source of OFF-Shore INCOME for US Holding Companies as well as the major source of US currency accumulation, technology and manufacturing know how for China Inc. and others across Asia.
Yet, Licensing can also be taken to court as well … so don’t pop the corks yet.
Wow! Interesting!!!
As for taking the exiting licenses to court, even if the countries win, time is money. And maybe Trump can use other new licenses to punish countries who take him to court.
Example if Venezuela takes him to court, then Trump shuts down the US market to a company who is supplying equipment Venezuela desperately needs to restart their economy. So that company pressures them to drop their opposition to the tariffs.
I dont know. Maybe that’s a lame example but hopefully it makes my overall point on why court cases may not be effective in the long run.
Not a bad example yet …. the President is going to have to carefully balance the Licensing Approach so as not to drive too hard on the EXPORT Side, which would drive a foreign government to use another nation as a source.
This is where the “Bilateral Trade Agreements” discussed by Sundance will come into major focus.
The massive agreements such as NAFTA, TPP and TIPP were traps that actually took away (via legal treaty preemption) a President’s ability to actually use and apply the IEEPA.
Hey Senator Collins, nice lobster and crab export numbers your state is showing. Be a shame if something happened to that.
Saaay, about that SAVE ACT vote coming up.
It will be interesting to watch the markets for the next 3-months.
Stuff for Summer has already landed in the US Retail Distribution Centers and Spring stuff is on store shelves.
The tricky part is the FALL stuff … my Walmart Executive Supply Chain friends are going nuts trying to figure what to put on the Ships coming to the US … now Walmart (or any company) will have to hire all sorts of lawyers and specialists to submit licenses … or buy domestically.
Now think of the USMCA going away this summer. Mexico and Canada used to get preferential treatment in the licensing process …. so no “NAFTA Like” short cuts via that route either.
From my past experience …. the US Government Licensing Process can add significant time to the manufacturing process via license processing delays …. just think of ALL the license applications that will have to be submitted and processed.
NOTE: President Trump and his Team have CUT the staff’s of the US Executive Branch agencies that manage the licensing process …. especially the US State Department that traditionally handles the licensing process.
Very insightful comments, thanks.
Let’s hope most of the staff they cut was the dead wood and now they will be allowed to hire the best and brightest to replace them. 😀
President Trump always has Plan B
can’t wait to find out what it is
My hope is that he turns this into something that makes the Supreme Court wish they’d rule differently.
They intend to deliver President Trump a shit sandwich and he then turns around and hands it right back to them.
The purpose was to get to plan B.
JMO.
“New Jersey lawmakers concerned surge of AI could increase water, electricity costs”.
The concern about the so-called “AI Data Center’s” resource usage is shared across the nation.
One point that is not being covered is that the large usage of resources is a result of the inefficient data storage devices chosen by a small group of unknown people to be used in the centers.
Before any permits and or funds are issued to these centers, the federal government should demand that bids be taken for at least 3 competitive designs of the types of data storage devices used in the centers and their impact on resource usage.
Competitive bids …….. they have their purpose.
An interesting man named Jay Valentine (Fractal-Computing.com …) has an entirely-contrarian viewpoint on all this. And his technical accomplishments and knowledge are not to be discounted. He says that “computing” will not wind up in “massive central data centers,” using 1980’s-era database and server software, but highly distributed over inexpensive computers located very close to the data itself. (For example, a “Mac Mini.”) He basically argues that “massive data centers,” consuming “enormous amounts of power,” because of this thing called “AI,” is entirely a technical myth. I find his arguments very persuasive.
Twenty-six years ago, “Y2K” was very much the same thing. The computing world was going to melt down “at the stroke of midnight,” unless you spent enormous sums of money “right now” to prevent it. (Apparently, no one looked at the bank statement covering their 30-year mortgages, and noted the expiration date printed there.) The computer software industry – and this is my industry, too – is extremely prone to lie when there is money in it. (“Y2K” was a terrible time to be an ethical computer consultant … ask me how I know.)
Mike Robinson,
Thanks for the comment.
The point about Jay’s idea is that we have not seen any indication that there has been any thought about different designs……… we know the one that is primarily being chosen now is a resource hog.
Tax payers, locally or nationally, should not be buying a “hog in a blanket” (a paraphrase).
I’m not sure why it hasn’t occurred to anyone that the “data center build out” is actually a very successful set of traps for the DS players, getting played using their own dreams of total control through silicon plus depopulation disaster.
Every single data center, as I understand it, requires that substantial back up generators be installed so that the data won’t be interrupted if the main grid goes down / power goes out.
During the recent almost nationwide severe deep freeze (stress test?), the grid held up with no rolling blackouts needed. And an order went out to tap those AI data center generators if needed.
Things that make you go hmmm.
One of the key national security vulnerabilities this nation has had over the past several decades has been an old, weak power grid that could have been taken down by attacking fewer than 30 vulnerable points. And the FERC refused, for decades, to do anything about it, because FERC was a captured operation.
The way the system was built, the power companies were never going to have an incentive to respond to the national security problem posed by the vulnerable grid.
Almost like the system was intentionally built that way.
It was a rip cord, on the entire country, that could be yanked at a time of the DS’s choosing.
So, how do you do an end run around FERC? outside the system?
Maybe you throw billions upon billions of fiat currency (whose end of cycle time is coming anyways) to build a decentralized power generation back up infrastructure, under the guise of incredible (literally) promises.
In the meantime, Elon Musk is building out the real AI quantum computing infrastructure in space. Or on the moon. Possibly.
‘Twould be brilliant, no?
Dr. David Martin’s Fulcrum Ninja – Trump is one also; he employs it consistently.
As always, you present an interesting thought experiment.
Schmuck Murphy should never have closed Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant.
i am intimately familiar with this industry, and let me assure you, the leftist governments, do-nothing politicians, NGOs, and other corrupt orgs are very happy to have us all distracted to the boogieman of “AI” and away from their decades of s*t energy and infrastructure policy.
i am also very unclear what you are talking about on “inefficient data storage devices chosen by a small group of unknown people”…? are you referring to federal government deployments specifically?
even if not, not only is data storage getting extremely efficient, it is a very standard and well-known process: a bunch of manufacturers sell it to a very wide and diverse set of enterprises for their needs. both sides are well known people… its every IT group of every company that exists…
the storage is not even remotely the energy or space issue that the processing and compute is.
Isn’t it interesting that Roberts found a way to get around the law and constitution when he called Obamacare a tax?
Actually, he said is both was a tax and wasn’t a tax.
The Anti-Injunction Act requires that a person pay the tax and then file for a refund before they can challenge the constitutionality of a tax. Roberts said the Obamacare premium was not a tax for the purposed of this statute. So it could be challenged before payment.
But as far as the congressional authority to impose the Obamacare requirement, Roberts said it was within Congress’ taxing power to impose this as a tax.
IIRC, Scalia ripped him apart about this reasoning in his (Scalia’s) dissent.
Scalia was absolutely right. Roberts weaseled words into an incorrect decision.
It a was an abhorrent decision. The Congress, using its Article I powers, could have raised federal income taxes across the board with one hand and the other hand could have a given tax credit equal to the increase upon proof of purchasing insurance.
Roberts is a “compromised” Justice because of the illegal adoption of his 2 children. Obama has the goods on him and is still calling the shots.
through the NSA spying they do for the DS.
His children are adults now, and past college age. That probably isn’t the leverage that it used to be.
It doesn’t matter how old the children are now. The fact is that he did something very illegal and has no right to be a Judge, let alone a US Supreme Court Justice.
His “legacy” is where all of his milquetoast thinking originates today.
Unless it turns out they weren’t adopted at all, but rather custom bred and bought from John of God.
There would be no escape from the disgrace if that were true.
It’s a big club, and he was in it.
He still is in the club. I wonder why we seldom hear about these children that the Players have. Maybe one child like Alex Soros but the guy had 5 total, I think. Alex has a brother Johnathan around the same age but ther should be more and much older 1/2 brothers and sisters too.
Gates has two sons yet Melinda claimed she has daughters? Where are these people?
That has been known and acknowledged for so long that I don’t think it confers any leverage.
He looked like he’d been up all night crying that day. I think he had some nasty blackmail material he was threatened with since they had a previous decision written up disallowing it.
This SC is such BS. They hate the real American people. ACB and JR are both bought off globalists.
I’m starting to question why we have an executive branch when the corrupt courts are determining Presidential policy. ???
As bad as the SC has been at times, Obamacare spit!, it’s the district courts and lower court judges that have really been ticking me off.
This isn’t the decision to get riled up about. Lack of SC intervention in lower court injunctions and the unconstitutional FISA court are absolutely the places to be incontrovertibly pissed off.
NEED PLAN B PRONTO. So sick of these courts and there paid off globalists judges. Its so obvious.
Tariffs were Plan B. Now it is time for Congress to step up and do their job which is to pass laws for fair trade which make the President’s job easier.
Good luck with that!
There is a Plan B. Scott Bessent was unequivocal about that weeks ago. Relax everyone.
Here’s the article from ZH on the Tariff decision (at the bottom)
I recall Bessent saying more than once, they think they’ve got this, but they’ve got other options to get there, they have a Plan B ready to roll.
I’m mad about this because I’ve come to see that we’re using monetary policy rather than war to solve these deep issues- many that have grown to flat out crisis.
So would the Supreme Court rather we go to war against China to stop its attacks upon the US?
If we can solve this with money, isn’t that preferable to war?
The Supreme Court kicks it all off the do nothing. bought and paid for Congress crooks- many of which are old as dirt.
I am very pissed off about this and somewhat surprised that it’s Trump’s own SC picks that then went against him.
So what does that all say?
Here’s the link:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-rules-tariffs
Gonna be a busy day here!
JMO.
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I think President Trump can rename “tariffs” as “Permits” or “Licenses” as a way for countries to do business in America.
The government is limited to charge only the cost of issuing the permit or licence. Otherwise, it’s a tax!
And when have we ever seen a flaming liberal turn up their nose at a permit or license?
To make it taste better, there ought to be a fee involved, too…
Raising my coffee cup in a toast to new permits…!
Reading a little more into this…
What is NOT affected
• The ruling does not invalidate all of Trump’s tariffs. It specifically targets those relying on IEEPA. Tariffs imposed under other legal authorities remain in place, such as:
—— Section 232 tariffs (national security-based, e.g., on steel and aluminum).
—— Section 301 tariffs (unfair trade practices).
—— Other targeted levies (e.g., on specific products like copper or certain goods).
In practical terms, this decision destroyed his “Liberation Day” tariffs”, and Could now lead to refunds of billions (estimates in the $100–$180+ billion range) in already-collected duties for importers, depending on ongoing processes.
This also sets the precedent that Limits future presidents’ ability to use IEEPA for broad tariff policies without new legislation.
https://t.me/candlesinthenight/91781
Fresh off the trail in Rome, GA…..did someone leak?
It would seem now more profitable for the US to make/use those products ourselves?
Could the stars align with tariff policy passed by this Congress? Holy hell this is earth shattering for this administration.
Have you noticed how many R’s have voted with D’s of late?
Our representatives have not been protecting American citizens for a long time. Look at our national debt and look at how many R’s supported Biden’s insane spending.
I trust President Trump to have a work around.
I do not trust our lawmakers do the right thing or to support him in this.
Last year… President Trump warned of an economic disaster if the Supreme Court ruled against tariffs
I can’t imagine that President Trump did not plan for this. So, let’s see what happens. Also, watch the stock market…
https://rumble.com/v6yekjg-president-trump-said-hes-used-tariffs-to-negotiate-7-peace-deals.html
https://t.me/candlesinthenight/91782
Markets are up following ruling.
Roberts may claim he’s just calling balls and strikes, but he’s the one who decided the size of the strike zone today.
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Limited to steel, cars and maybe semiconductors. Otherwise, only 15% for 5 months.
In reading Thomas and Kavanaugh’s opinion the court ruled incorrectly. But, if you are a globalist at heart, then then the majority held out their opinion/ruling. The six justices ruling against Trump’s Tarrif policy are globalists at heart.
At least one of them is simply an activist tool that doesn’t know what a woman is. As for the others, they ruled that the USA isn’t a nation that has a right to protect itself from exploitation, it is simply a land mass.
Thune, it rhymes with Ghune, and him and his mentor Glitch The Turdle McCONnell are traitors that have done more harm to America than the infamous Benedict Arnold ever did.
Ok… so I did some digging, and yes, it seems like Trump did have a PLAN B if SCOTUS ruled against him.
The contingency plans include EXPANDED use of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, which allows tariffs on national security grounds and has already been used to target steel, aluminum, autos, copper and lumber.
And guess what SCOTUS did not rule against… Section 232
Read that again… on NATIONAL SECURITY GROUNDS. I mean, everything Trump is dealing with could be classified as National Security Grounds.
Just a guess..
I imagine Trump might post his disappointment about the ruling, and he will go on to say he has no choice but to expand Section 232. Or, expand on other tariff powers yet unnamed.
Have some faith. Let Trump cook.
https://rumble.com/v71agh2-president-trump-will-win-the-scotus-tariff-case-and-the-economy-will-go-.html
https://t.me/candlesinthenight/91783
First, the constitution is clear:
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, ….
FDR brow-beat the Court into giving him power, enabling the Administrative Branch (and all the problems we have now with an over-bearing Fed gov’t). They opened the door for the Executive i.e. President to levy duties by claiming Congress can give its power to the President if clear “guidelines” are also provided. It sounds like BS to me, but that is where we are.
The IEEPA, per the Court, allows lots of things, but it cannot allow duties (tariffs) because this power is for Congress. Apparently the law is so open-ended there were no “guidelines.”
The complaints should be directed at the writers of the Constitution.
The easiest thing would be: (1) The Senate reinstates the “real filibuster” where everybody can argue/speak as long as they like, but eventually the bill is voted on; (2) The Senate and House pass a law that states tariffs will be levied according to guidelines that match PDJT’s numbers, retroactive to the start of the year.
Easy if they are not corrupt and/or paid-off.
Words cannot express how much I loathe the AWfL on the Supreme Court-Amy Phoney Barrett. No doubt this will be the same split for the Birthright Citizenship ruling. May they roast in Hades.
RIGHT there with you Righted! She may very well be worse than the DEI moron kiddie-porn ketanji.
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I think Trump knew how SCROTUS would decide. Thus, Rome, GA feel good waa yesterday.
was, not waa
Once again the Supreme Court twists itself into a bind to try and weasel out of things that Trump has the power to do.
What is the remedy now?
Do we pay back all the money we collected from the tariffs?
So Trump can control the imports of items but he cannot control the tariffs of imports?
This ruling once again makes no sense.
The Supreme Court majority today issued a very messy and problematic decision. See below. The fact is the majority agreed on an outcome but not so much on the reasoning for the outcome. Furthermore, it struck tariffs under a single statute, yet created chaos or, actually, left it to the president to decide if and/or how to treat the revenue those tariffs already created for the federal Treasury.
The majority had a problem, which I said it would, should the Court move in this direction: tariffs are more than indirect taxes; they do, in fact, impact foreign affairs and national security matters and have been used for those specific purposes. Therefore, the question is not who has the power to tax per se, but a more complicated question about where the separation of powers is. The majority, apparently, chose to duck the question and stick with the indirect tax characterization and focus on a single statute, which is outrageous. It could not figure out how to bifurcate the Congress’s power of the purse from the President’s foreign policy powers, so it redefined the issue to reach the outcome — and even then, they argued over the rationale.
So, we are left with even a worse ambiguity. 1. If only Congress can raise taxes, even indirectly, then how does the Court justify the entire regulatory state in the executive branch that raises indirect taxes hourly? Congress may have delegated that power to the bureaucracy, but it does not have the power to delegate legislative power and taxation. This goes back as far as John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government. Yet the Court is okay with that since it is okay with the massive welfare state. 2. Putting aside the specific statute, it appears the President is still free to raise or cut tariffs under other statutes, but that will no doubt be challenged as well. The Court succeeded only in creating confusion going forward. 3. Since the Court foolishly decided to get involved in this matter, even though the majority states it is not getting involved in policy, it has gotten into policy, and it has not drawn a clear line on separation of powers because it cannot, and it created a terrible mess — both legally and economically.
More later on radio.
https://truthsocial.com/@marklevinshow/116103807106524800
It would have been a lot more “PROBLEMATIC” for us to allow a President Newsom in 2028 to declare a national climate emergency and assess a 100% tariff on all imports from any country that doesn’t ban oil and gas!
Turley says the IEPA ER reason for tarrifs was a stretch and not surprising it got struck down. Also President trump will have other ways to impose Tariffs there is a backup plan . Also money will NOT have to be returned that was already taken in. And of course Congress could always act to secure the tarrifs but since you always need 60 votes in senate nothing will get done from congress. Thats why Congresses power gets ceeded to the president
I guess we can now go back to uneven trade. This decision helps liberal democrats and China.
Who gets to decide if an emergency exists, SCOTUS or POTUS?
I’m optimistic PDJT & Co. anticipated this and have already formulated a few “work arounds” to avoid too big a “hit” to the progress already made 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
i agree with this, not because I understand the ins and outs, but because Trump and his team must have “Haz-Opted” this situation in detail. If they didn’t, they are complete idiots. They need time to digest the actual ruling first though…….
As every aspect of construction is contingency based there’s a plan B, the interesting thing will be which plan B they picked.
The level of victory evinced by the Democrat Party will be a good indicator of what the real state of the party is, with over-celebration, reliant on hyperbole, usually suggestive that things are not matching their claims, or the media narrative.
If the democratically elected Gov cannot impose the tax policy it campained on then something is very very rotten in the USA.
The details matter here. Let’s wait and see what people who know what this ruling means have to say (and I don’t mean Blonde). All the drive-by news and click-bait sites are going berserk, but this is how they make money (getting people lathered-up).
I sure hope Alito doesn’t retire. I don’t think our nation can survive another Trump-appointed supreme court justice…….
Excellent article to read this weekend over a cup of coffee ☕️ . We need more Middletons!
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Good morning America how are ya?
Fine, Aggie, how are you? So far I’ve only planted strawberries and tulips down here in Zone 8. Hope I’m not too late for lettuce. Plan on tilling up my small garden this weekend.
I’m very jealous.
We’ve got at least a foot of snow on the ground here in NH, and as I look out my window right now, I see a blizzard that will dump about 6 more inches on us.
Hopefully we’re not still skiing for 4th of July.
Oh my goodness, NH, I can’t imagine. Y’all must have a very short growing season. Here’s hoping for warm weather for you soon!
Flurries in zone 5b…
If ONLY the right were so good at counteracting and defeating EVERYTHING a democrat president does while in office! Holy s___ this stuff just makes me so mad!
Well, naturally the commie courts are with the left when a commie president (the defendant) tears up the constitution and with the plaintiffs when a “Republican” (the defendant) is president.
These actions by dems were only a reaction to PT getting elected first time . Before that they had no reason to oppose everything a R President did.
As noted similarly in another comment, perhaps this was always a way to figure out his/our enemy’s response and respond accordingly. I’m sure all the tariff funds are in some escrow for this very reason…….maybe a Federal Reserve CD 😜
SCOTUS just ended America. Yet here we are, Bannon is bad.
We don’t deserve this freedom ride we have been blessed with.
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And there it is.. Plan B
Within Justice Kavanaugh’s dissent, He says the Supreme Court got it wrong, but says Trump still has all the Cards:
The IEEPA law does let the President impose tariffs during a national emergency (based on its text, history, and precedents).
The majority wrongly applied the strict “major questions doctrine” to block it in foreign affairs/trade.
Even if the ruling stands, Presidents can likely impose similar (or MOST OF THE SAME) tariffs using these other trade laws instead:
—— Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Section 232 – national security).
—— Trade Act of 1974 (Sections 122, 201, 301 – unfair trade, safeguards, balance-of-payments).
—— Tariff Act of 1930 (Section 338 – retaliatory tariffs).
These require a few extra steps (like INVESTIGATIONS), but cover the tariffs at issue.
Bottom line: Legaly, he says this was the wrong call, but Presidents do have workarounds via those other statutes.
https://t.me/candlesinthenight/91785
The question now is how many moths, years before a work around could br in place?
Also how much does the worthless anti American Uniparty congress have to be involved?
And is it true we have to pay back 175 billion?
I think the investigations were done and just need some updating.
President Trump Won
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Going to go a little positive theorist here. This, in my opinion, is not a surprise to President Trump or his administration. It was already known to a degree. However, the supreme (if I can site them with caring for America) held off the decision giving President Trump and his team time to formulate a plan B. Completed, the supreme made their decision known. Perhaps folks will think to much credit is given to the supreme but they did wait a long time to make the announcement.
The markets are happy about the tariffs decision.
Just in time to prevent the cratering that might have occurred from Blue Owl private equity crashing out.
Masterful timing?
Let us see (hopefully) what his response might be at the State of the Union. Hopefully, he will have a sledge hammer response. “I was trying the easy way, now we will do it the hard way.” And detail it whether it’s licenses or something else.
Do you want to see something really scary?
A very compelling argument for the true nature of the Epstein saga:
https://redpillproject.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-the-architect-of
Wow the was a heck of a read. And it makes perfect sense–I have always thought that one of the goals of the global masters was to create diseases that were specific to certain ethnicities and be able to cull a population of peoples while sparing others. remember RFK jr revealing that Covid did not affect Ashkenazi jews and Asians the same way as others. These monsters think they are God.
They absolutely are monsters and that article gives more credence to the many videos out there speaking about transhumanism and technocracy from people in or associated with the global elite.
Well, clearly I’d have preferred to see the court rule in line with the dissenting Justices in this case, because I want President Trump to get what he wants, but I won’t be throwing ashes in my hair or gnashing my teeth unless I see clear evidence from him that there’s not a plan B ready and waiting to compensate for this setback.
He’s already used the tariffs to very good effect, slapping offending companies into line and making it clear we’re through being everybody’s sugar daddy and easy touch. I doubt they’ll immediately try and snap back to their old ways, so there’s that.
Meanwhile, I suspect Mr. Crazy Like a Fox has a fallback position ready to occupy, and, like the Epstein Files, it will backfire bigly on his opponents and keep him firmly on the high ground.
We’ll see what happens.
President Trump will hold a press briefing at 12:45 today to discuss this morning’s SCOTUS ruling.
Per CSPAN
Let’s hear from the President himself, now that the world has been subjected to Friday’s plethora of Trump needs to or it’s for sure all over this time noise.
We should be deporting at least 5 million illegal aliens every year, minimum. And again, why is ICE not showing up in a dozen buses, with several hundred agents, and emptying out the hotels and apartment buildings where the sanctuary cities are housing them by the hundreds at a time? Seems like low hanging fruit to me.
that’s not near enough. There’s at least 40M here now. You’re not gonna get all of them, but just going after the “criminals” isn’t enough.
When the border floodgates get re-opened in Jan 2029, they will be coming into America at a 5,000 per week clip putting up tents in your front yard and pissing on your tomato plants.
And all those hotels at interstate exits near the Windy City (and others) that went up in the last 20+ years…big names like Holiday Inn etc…….
“why is ICE not”
The budget. 95 % of their budget is probably Staff and Benefits. Agency budgets contain very little that is discretionary. ICE’s available bed space and transportation is finite. Homan is prioritizing the use of available resources.
Congress is responsible for appropriations, they deal the cards ICE can only play the cards they are dealt.
“Amy” We went all in for her in the fall of 2020. She came out of the gate hosing President Trump on election laws right before the 2020 steal. Now she keeps doing it by siding with Roberts on tariffs. She will be doing this to us for the next 30 years .
I left out Gorsuch .The clown that thinks Oklahoma is an Indian reservation and as a result he overturned the conviction of a child rapist .