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Rhiannon12866

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Fri Feb 27, 2026, 04:35 AM Feb 27

The Supreme Court Just Shut Down Trump's Tariffs. Now he's keeping the $175B - Decoding The Rhetoric



The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a massive constitutional defeat, ruling 6-3 that their multi-billion dollar tariff program exceeded legal authority. But instead of issuing refunds, the administration is pivoting to new legal workarounds while sitting on $175 billion that belongs to the American people.

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The Supreme Court Just Shut Down Trump's Tariffs. Now he's keeping the $175B - Decoding The Rhetoric (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Feb 27 OP
Can they freeze those assets? SheilaAnn Feb 27 #1
Furious Trump wants 'rehearing' after 'highly disappointing' Supreme Court defeat LetMyPeopleVote Feb 28 #2

LetMyPeopleVote

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2. Furious Trump wants 'rehearing' after 'highly disappointing' Supreme Court defeat
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 08:34 PM
Feb 28

trump really does not want to refund the illegal tariffs

President Donald Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court again on Friday, questioning whether a "Rehearing or Readjudication" is possible after the justices dealt a devastating blow to his tariff agenda one week ago.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-02-28T02:00:21Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supreme-court-2675368843

President Donald Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court again on Friday, questioning whether a “Rehearing or Readjudication” is possible after the justices dealt a devastating blow to his tariff agenda one week ago.

In a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump claimed the ruling “could allow for Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to be returned to Countries and Companies that have been ‘ripping off’ the United States of America for many years."

"And now, according to this Decision, could actually continue to do so, at an even increased level,” he argued. “I am sure that the Supreme Court did not have this in mind!”

“It doesn’t make sense that Countries and Companies that took advantage of us for decades, receiving Billions and Billions of Dollars that they should not have been allowed to receive, would now be entitled to an undeserved ‘windfall,’ the likes of which the World has never seen before," Trump added.

The president insisted the high court could not have intended such an outcome and called the decision “highly disappointing, to say the least.” He then added: “Is a Rehearing or Readjudication of this case possible???”
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