As the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks was ecstatic to learn of Friday\u2019s Supreme Court ruling striking down President Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping emergency tariffs.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that a law, known as IEEPA, does not give the president the power to impose tariffs on any country
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The law gives presidents broad economic powers in times of emergency
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President Donald Trump responded by announcing a new 10% global tariff<\/p>\n
Last week, Meeks successfully passed a resolution out of the House, labeling the tariffs that Trump levied on Canada, under a law giving presidents broad economic powers in times of emergency, illegal.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the law, known as IEEPA, does not give the president the power to impose tariffs on any country. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe court agreed with what Democrats have said from day one. A president cannot ignore Congress and unilaterally slap these tariffs on the American people,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.<\/p>\n
The decision did not cause Trump, who has centered his foreign and economic policy on tariffs, to retreat.<\/p>\n
Instead, he announced new tariffs under a different legal mechanism.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, I will sign an order to impose a 10% global tariff under Section 122,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n
Trump previously used IEEPA to levy tariffs because it triggers fewer regulations than other legal mechanisms.<\/p>\n
Moving forward, he will be limited in terms of the scope and duration of tariffs. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been doing it in an arbitrary and capricious way, quite frankly. And this [ruling] will prevent him from doing just that,\u201d Meeks said.<\/p>\n
Trump also lashed out against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries after Friday\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n
Jeffries issued a statement calling on Trump to \u201crefrain from any further unilateral action on tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s a low-IQ individual,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe guy doesn\u2019t even know what a tariff is,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Meeks told NY1 he will examine the president\u2019s new tariffs and tariffs that remain intact. He said he was considering filing additional legislation to oppose them.<\/p>\n
Hudson Valley Republican Rep. Mike Lawler said he felt the Supreme Court ruling, in which three conservative justices broke with the president, \u201creaffirms our system of checks and balances is alive and well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI support President Trump\u2019s push for fair and reciprocal trade agreements that protect American workers and taxpayers. Following today\u2019s ruling, I look forward to working with the White House and with common-sense people in both parties to achieve those goals,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks was ecstatic to learn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,25,9,24,11,10,12,112,108,87,45797,27,200,58726],"class_list":{"0":"post-140728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","17":"tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-shannon-ryan","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod","22":"tag-washington-d-c-bureau"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}