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Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s seismic ruling last week against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, there is little evidence of a Republican clamor on Capitol Hill to make those import taxes legal, even as the president claims that congressional action isn’t necessary.

It’s too early to tell if Republicans have taken to heart the admonishment they received from the high court, particularly in Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurring opinion, for failing to offer any strong protest to the president’s usurpation of their constitutional prerogatives on trade and tariffs. But Trump’s continued search for other novel tariff authorities will eventually likely come to Congress’s doorstep, regardless of some Republican lawmakers’ preferences to not have to take a stand.

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s seismic ruling last week against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, there is little evidence of a Republican clamor on Capitol Hill to make those import taxes legal, even as the president claims that congressional action isn’t necessary.

It’s too early to tell if Republicans have taken to heart the admonishment they received from the high court, particularly in Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurring opinion, for failing to offer any strong protest to the president’s usurpation of their constitutional prerogatives on trade and tariffs. But Trump’s continued search for other novel tariff authorities will eventually likely come to Congress’s doorstep, regardless of some Republican lawmakers’ preferences to not have to take a stand.

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