Washington, Jan 20 (AP) US President Donald Trump gave a somewhat meandering defence of his declaration of an economic emergency to impose tariffs, saying the law is clear to him but he doesn’t know how
the Supreme Court will rule in a pending case challenging the legality.
Trump said at a news briefing that the government can restrict trade by requiring licenses and that tariffs could be less severe. But Trump stressed, “I don’t know what the Supreme Court’s going to do.” “If we lose that case, it’s possible we’re going to have to do the best we can in paying it back,” Trump said. “I don’t know how that’s going to be done very easily without hurting a lot of people.” The president used emergency tariffs to negotiate trade frameworks and on Saturday threatened tariffs on eight European nations in hopes of forcing those countries to back US ownership of Greenland. (AP) GRS GRS
