{"id":279534,"date":"2026-04-22T02:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279534\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:04:31","slug":"trump-on-big-tech-not-requesting-tariff-refunds-ill-remember-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279534\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump on Big Tech not requesting tariff refunds: &#8216;I&#8217;ll remember them&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 President Donald Trump praised Big Tech companies on Tuesday for not requesting tariff refunds, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;ll remember them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CNBC&#8217;s Squawk Box anchor Joe Kernen said to Trump on Tuesday regarding Big Tech companies and <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/president-trump-administration-accepting-requests-for-refunds-of-supreme-court-invalidated-tariffs-economy-commerce-taxes-imports-exports#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tariff refund requests<\/a>, &#8220;From what I understand, part of the reason that they have waited is because there is a worry about, frankly, offending you. Would you find it offensive for them to try to collect a refund?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually, if they don&#8217;t do that, they&#8217;ve got to know me very well,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;m very honored by what you just said. If they don&#8217;t do that, I&#8217;ll remember them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, companies that paid tariffs imposed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act could start applying for refunds. In February, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump&#8217;s tariffs imposed under the IEEPA were unconstitutional, allowing companies to request refunds. Businesses can submit their reimbursement applications for tariff refunds through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection&#8217;s online portal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/trump-says-supreme-court-just-doesnt-seem-to-care-tariffs-birthright-citizenship#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">criticized<\/a> the Supreme Court for striking down his ability to use IEEPA to collect tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All they had to do is add one sentence, just one sentence, and that&#8217;s you don&#8217;t have to pay anything taken in thus far back, but because they didn&#8217;t add  we have to pay back $165 billion they could have with a little one sentence. &#8216;You don&#8217;t have to pay back tariffs that have already been received,'&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I&#8217;m not happy with the Supreme Court, I&#8217;ll be honest with you,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I will tell you that because I&#8217;m looking to make this country strong, the Supreme Court could have helped us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 President Donald Trump praised Big Tech companies on Tuesday for not requesting tariff refunds, saying,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-279534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}