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You’re paying the interest on Trump’s $166 billion tariff refund

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02.10.2026

Every controller knows the sentence that ends careers: “We booked that as revenue.” For a year, Washington booked tariff collections as revenue. Then the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Learning Resources v. Trump that the emergency law behind tariffs never authorized them. Now the money is going back out the door.

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