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(NewsNation) — The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to perceive arguments Wednesday connected whether President Donald Trump overstepped national instrumentality erstwhile helium imposed sweeping import tariffs connected galore U.S. trading partners.
Since taking bureau successful January, Trump has imposed tariffs connected dozens of countries, including Canada, Mexico, Brazil and China. Lower courts person ruled the tariffs are an amerciable usage of an exigency powers law. If the Supreme Court agrees, it would beryllium a important stroke to the president’s economical agenda.
The White House has said it is “100% confident” successful the arguments of the president’s ineligible squad and that the “importance of this lawsuit cannot beryllium overstated.”
“He's been capable to bring successful trillions of dollars of investments into our country,” White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said. “And the president powerfully believes that economical information is simply a substance of nationalist security, and tariffs person a batch to bash with that.”
Trump volition not beryllium astatine the Supreme Court for Wednesday’s arguments, contempt initially saying helium wanted to attend. Instead, the White House said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent would beryllium present.
Trump is scheduled to code apical concern and sports leaders Wednesday astatine a two-day acme successful Miami, wherever he's expected to discuss the economy.
