'Stunning defeat' could rip apart Trump's trade deals: White House reporter
A federal court dealt a "stunning defeat" to president Donald Trump and his tariff agenda, reported CNN's Alayna Treene.
A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of International Trade slapped down the president's global tariffs and ruled in favor of a permanent injunction against his trade war against Canada, China, Mexico and other trade partners, and the issue could eventually wind up before the Supreme Court.
"I'm surprised that we have not yet gotten a Truth Social post from president Donald Trump regarding this or really attacking this ruling from the court," Treene said. "But we have heard from the White House from a spokesperson on this and they are, of course, criticizing this ruling very heavily."
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White House spokesman Kush Desai claimed trade deficit created a "national emergency" that justified Trump's tariffs, but the court found the president lacked the authority to impose those duties, and White House deputy chief of staff called the ruling a "judicial coup."
"You can kind of see how the White House is already responding to this," Treene said. "They are arguing that it is not in the court's power to try and block his tariffs from moving forward. I mean, this is really a stunning defeat as of now for the Trump administration, because so much of what the president has done in his first few months in office has really been geared toward these tariffs, particularly when you look at his economic policy and what the president himself has said repeatedly now, which is that he believes that he is the person who needs to reset and reshape the global economic order."
The key question for now, Treene said, was how the ruling impacted trade deals negotiated by the administration since the tariffs were announced.
"We know treasury secretary Scott Bessent, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, all of them have been daily talking to the United States trade partners to work out some sort of trade deal, specifically on those tariffs, where, you know, that the president announced on 'liberation day' in the in the Rose Garden, where he was putting reciprocal tariffs on essentially almost all countries," Treene said. "Those were impacted by this, so it's unclear what exactly is going to happen with these trade deals. There's no question that this administration is going to continue to move forward with them. But, of course, if these countries believe that perhaps these tariffs are going to be stopped overall, that could actually slow down that process."
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