{"id":2508465,"date":"2025-11-09T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-bemoans-attacks-on-unilateral-tariff-authority\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:30:00","slug":"trump-bemoans-attacks-on-unilateral-tariff-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-bemoans-attacks-on-unilateral-tariff-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump bemoans attacks on unilateral tariff authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-bemoans-attacks-on-unilateral-tariff-authority%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2508465&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses former President Donald Trump&#8217;s strong defense of his use of unilateral tariffs imposed under the International Emergency economic powers Act (IEEPA). In April,Trump declared a national emergency citing large U.S. trade deficits and used IEEPA to enact meaningful tariffs on multiple countries, a move now challenged in court. The Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments on whether the president needs congressional approval to impose such tariffs or if he acted within his executive powers. Trump criticized those questioning his authority, arguing that the Constitution does not prohibit tariffs and that tariffs have attracted businesses to the U.S. He also highlighted current economic successes, claiming that tariffs contributed to low inflation, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >high stock market performance<\/a>, and increased domestic investment. Critics, though, worry that Trump&#8217;s protectionist policies could harm consumers by raising prices and undermining free trade principles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump bemoans lack of unilateral tariff authority as &lsquo;NOT&rsquo; what founders had in mind<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2393667\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Sunday railed against arguments that his sweeping global <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tariffs\/\">tariffs <\/a>lacked a constitutional legal basis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In April, Trump used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to enact &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/04\/regulating-imports-with-a-reciprocal-tariff-to-rectify-trade-practices-that-contribute-to-large-and-persistent-annual-united-states-goods-trade-deficits\/\">Liberation Day<\/a>&rdquo; tariffs against a host of countries. The move was swiftly challenged in court, with the Supreme Court <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3873776\/bessent-ringside-seat-supreme-court-tariff-hearing\/\">now considering <\/a>whether Trump must have congressional signoff for such tariffs, or if the president was within his lane when he unilaterally invoked IEPPA to trigger the tariffs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3879415\/trump-asks-supreme-court-halt-order-issue-full-snap-benefits\/\">Supreme Court grants Trump request to block full SNAP payments with child nutrition funds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3878384\/supreme-court-hands-trump-a-win-on-passport-biological-sex-rule\/\">Supreme Court hands Trump a win on passport biological sex rule<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3876434\/supreme-court-president-economic-powers-foreign-policy-tariffs\/\">Supreme Court justices pit president&#8217;s economic powers against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-pits-presidents-economic-powers-against-foreign-policy-powers\/\" title=\"... pits ...&#039;s economic powers against foreign policy powers\">foreign policy powers<\/a> in tariffs argument<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump issued a fiery Truth Social post <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115519951705472870\">over the weekend<\/a>, slamming critics for questioning his power, arguing &ldquo;that was not what the founders had in mind.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, let&rsquo;s get this straight??? The President of the United States is allowed (and fully approved by Congress!) to stop ALL TRADE with a Foreign Country (Which is far more onerous than a Tariff!), and LICENSE a Foreign Country, but is not allowed to put a simple Tariff on a Foreign Country, even for purposes of NATIONAL SECURITY,&rdquo; the president questioned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That is NOT what our great Founders had in mind! The whole thing is ridiculous! Other Countries can Tariff us, but we can&rsquo;t Tariff them??? It is their DREAM!!! Businesses are pouring into the USA ONLY BECAUSE OF TARIFFS. HAS THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT NOT BEEN TOLD THIS??? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???&rdquo; he continued.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump talks on his phone in Marine One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, en route to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo\/Luis M. Alvarez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3876434\/supreme-court-president-economic-powers-foreign-policy-tariffs\/\"> began hearing <\/a>oral arguments on the<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1907533090559324204\"> Liberation Day tariffs<\/a> case last Wednesday. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-expresses-doubts-on-attempt-to-remove-trump-from-colorado-ballot\/\" title=\"SCOTUS skeptical about removing Trump from Colorado ballot\">justices appeared skeptical<\/a> of Solicitor General D. John Sauer&rsquo;s arguments that the president&rsquo;s tariffs under IEEPA are lawful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IEEPA is a 1977 law that grants the president authority to regulate certain economic activity during a &ldquo;national emergency.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On April 2, Trump declared a<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/04\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-national-emergency-to-increase-our-competitive-edge-protect-our-sovereignty-and-strengthen-our-national-and-economic-security\/\"> national emergency<\/a> due to concerns that there were gaping trade imbalances between the United States and other countries. He then invoked IEEPA to address the national emergency by placing tariffs on those countries to correct trade deficits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Besides concerns that the president lacked a proper legal basis to carry out his tariff agenda, critics have argued that Trump&rsquo;s sweeping protectionist policies could raise prices for consumers by undermining the principles of free and competitive trade they believe have led to the high standard of living enjoyed by U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3873776\/bessent-ringside-seat-supreme-court-tariff-hearing\/\"><strong>BESSENT SAYS HE&rsquo;LL HAVE &lsquo;RINGSIDE SEAT&rsquo; AT SUPREME COURT TARIFF HEARING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, in<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115519726463094783\"> another post<\/a> on Sunday, Trump called those who are against tariffs &ldquo;fools.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k&rsquo;s are Highest EVER. We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion. Record Investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place. A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high-income people!) will be paid to everyone,&rdquo; he wrote, alleging in a follow-up message that without tariffs, &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115519740341195886\">we have none<\/a>&rdquo; of those benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump criticizes limits on tariff power, says founders disagreed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2508466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25312800971723.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50406,42205,3634,66747],"class_list":["post-2508465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-tariffs-2","tag-trade-policy","tag-trump","tag-unilateral-authority"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25312800971723.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508469,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508465\/revisions\/2508469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}