President Trump’s rapid response team released a thread on X shortly after a federal court rejected Trump’s “unbounded authority” to impose worldwide tariffs.
Team Trump is confident that the court’s decision will be overturned on appeal.
The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that Trump overstepped his authority over tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
“The Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive powers to ‘lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,’ and to ‘regulate Commerce with foreign Nations,’” the court opined. “The question in the two cases before the court is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (“IEEPA”) delegates these powers to the President in the form of authority to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world.
“The court does not read IEEPA to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the challenged tariffs imposed thereunder,” the court continued.
“We are living under a judicial tyranny,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted on X after the decision.
We are living under a judicial tyranny. https://t.co/hTwK6rz9Pe
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) May 29, 2025
But Team Trump is confident the decision will be overturned on appeal — Trump’s Rapid Response team shared a thread on X.
“The ruling on @POTUS’s tariffs is blatantly wrong — and we are confident this decision will be overturned on appeal. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW,” the thread started.
“FACT: Congress, not the courts, was provided the authority to review and terminate emergency declarations — and this was ALREADY adjudicated when the Senate rejected an effort to terminate @POTUS‘s reciprocal tariffs,” it continued.
“FACT: A ruling in federal court earlier this month shows that @POTUS is in the right and that we will win on appeal. A federal district judge in Florida ruled that IEPPA does, in fact, grant the President the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs.”
“Voters gave @POTUS a mandate to address the national security emergency created by historic and persistent trade deficits. Unelected judges shouldn’t stand in the way of the Executive Branch’s lawful use of powers to address national security and foreign policy,” the thread concluded.
FACT: Congress, not the courts, was provided the authority to review and terminate emergency declarations — and this was ALREADY adjudicated when the Senate rejected an effort to terminate @POTUS's reciprocal tariffs.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 29, 2025
“Foreign countries’ nonreciprocal treatment of the United States has fueled America’s historic and persistent trade deficits,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said. “These deficits have created a national emergency that has decimated American communities, left our workers behind, and weakened our defense industrial base – facts that the court did not dispute.
“It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency,” Desai continued. “President Trump pledged to put America First, and the Administration is committed to using every lever of executive power to address this crisis and restore American Greatness.”