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Trump blasts Supreme Court tariff ruling, blames it for deficit
Speaking at Joint Base Andrews on Saturday, Trump blamed a Supreme Court ruling striking down a category of his tariffs for costing "hundreds of billions" in revenue, and promised $5,000 to every adult American if Republicans win both chambers on Nov 3.
Why it matters
This is Trump's most direct public attack on the court since the ruling. By tying the federal deficit to the decision and dangling a $5,000 payment, he is fusing tariffs, the deficit and the Nov 3 midterms into a single campaign front.
Full report
US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Saturday evening, Oct 10, after returning from a Republican campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee. Asked about the $2 trillion federal deficit for the last fiscal year, he blamed the Supreme Court: the court had forced the return of a category of tariffs worth "hundreds of billions of dollars," he said, calling the decision "very bad for our country." He gave no specific figure or accounting.
Earlier at the Tennessee rally he defended tariffs as the centerpiece of his economic program, citing a $6 billion-plus investment by Korea Zinc in Tennessee and a $275 million General Motors investment in Spring Hill as evidence tariffs were pulling manufacturing into the US.
Trump also promised that if Republicans take both chambers of Congress in the Nov 3 midterms, every adult American citizen would receive $5,000, financed by tariff revenues at an estimated total cost of about $1 trillion.
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