Dems Ecstatic at SCOTUS Tarriff Ruling Think They Can Use Against Trump in Midterms
Democrats are absolutely giddy over the Supreme Courts rebuke of President Trump’s tariff powers.
The left is celebrating the Court’s decision to strike down President Trump’s tariff agenda, vowing to use it against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.
The economy is already a top issue for voters and Democrats will attempt to tie tariffs to it as they make the case to take control of Congress.
“This decision from SCOTUS will NOT save vulnerable House Republicans. They are on the record voting multiple times to enable Trump’s tariffs which have raised prices across the board,” said House Majority PAC, which works to elect Democrats.
Congressional primaries start next month leading up to the November general election. The entire House of Representatives is at stake as is one-third of the Senate. Republicans are trying to keep control of both chambers.
“The Supreme Court decision striking down the harmful Trump tariffs is a big victory for the American people. And another crushing defeat for the wannabe king,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said.
But Trump’s says Dems who would strive to use the decision against him have another thing coming. He had a typical snappy retort for them, telling reporters in a press conference on Friday that Jeffries “doesn’t even know what a tariff is.”
Trump’s various taxes on foreign countries have been a controversial proposition. Several companies pointed to the policy as the reason for the hike in prices.
Democrats have made the cost of living a political rallying cry in this election year. And some GOP lawmakers have quietly tried to stay away from the issue, seeing it as a no-win situation.
House Republican leaders have tried to shield their vulnerable incumbents from taking a vote on tariffs, to avoid showing the rifts in their own party on the president’s signature tax policy. Last week, however, six Republicans joined most Democrats to rebuke the emergency declaration Trump used for tariffs on Canada.
“I feel vindicated,” Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska wrote on social media after the Supreme Court decision. He was one of the six defecting Republicans.
Speaker Mike Johnson, however, released a more measured statement, saying discussions on the issue need to continue.
“No one can deny that the president’s use of tariffs has brought in billions of dollars and created immense leverage for America’s trade strategy and for securing strong, reciprocal America-first trade agreements with countries that had been taking advantage of American workers for decades. Congress and the Administration will determine the best path forward in the coming weeks,” he said.
Despite some polls that show his tariff plan is unpopular, the president still sees it as the best financial path for the country. He is determined to see his tariff policy through and has several fallback ways to keep it the law of the land. Trump argued he has the authority to impose new and costly tariffs on foreign imports without congressional approval, which would spare his party a tough vote.
What remains unclear is what happens to the money collected by the federal government.
The president has argued Americans will see rebate checks from the revenue the tariffs brought into the treasury, which would help Republicans politically if that money hits people’s bank accounts. In 2025, the U.S. brought in $289 billion from the tariffs and other excise taxes, the Bipartisan Policy Center found.
Furthermore, Trump pointed out, the Supreme Court didn’t rule on whether the country had to return those funds that were collected.
Joe (or Larry or whoever wrote this post), And why shouldn’t Democrats be giddy about this ruling? Trump’s tariffs are simply taxes which are very regressive (meaning they affect poorer people more than rich people for the vast majority of your readers). His on again, off again actions have made it impossible for businesses to plan for their future, also knowing that they would be repealed by the next administration, so there has been no movement by big business as far as building infrastructure in the US is concerned. And they are part of the reason why our (former) allies are furious with the United States. Anyone who isn’t giddy about this ruling stripping demented Don of at least one of his authoritarian actions is a fool (and yes, I understand that includes you)….
Really Joe, that’s where you come out on this: “No one can deny that the president’s use of tariffs has brought in billions of dollars and created immense leverage for America’s trade strategy and for securing strong, reciprocal America-first trade agreements with countries that had been taking advantage of American workers for decades.” Do you really think any of those trade agreements are being followed now?
Really? You missed the taxation without representation part?
You missed the part on who foots the bill?
Joe, the old man is losing it. Biden made have had dementia, this guy gets tested regularly, what’s up with that? He looks and sounds a bit disheveled now and is even talking about his popularity in the silent majority. The man screaming no new wars is now waging many wars across the globe. The man promising lower prices is delivering inflation and lower GDP growth. And the man who signed the law on the Epstein files is breaking his own law by sheltering the Epstein files. You seem to be agreeing to some things now that I think you used to think were lunacy.
If tariffs created economic leverage, does our 2025 GDP growth number of 2.2% with a Q4 downward trend to 1.4% look like leverage? Why is our unemployment going up, now around 4.6%. Leverage? Did our trade deficit hit a record $1.24 Trillion in 2025 in leverage? Why did manufacturing lose over 100,000 jobs in 2025? What leverage caused that? Tariffs did. The only new business this guy is leveraging is turning warehouses into concentration camps for deportees. He’s even building one in NJ. Does he not know our costs here? Twenty miles west in PA is where most go to save money.
This latest SCOTUS, sorry Don, I mean scotus (does lower casing the supreme court for effect sound sane?), decision caused Trump to react with a 10% across the board tariff I guess declaring a trade war with the entire world. No wait, I think he made int 15% over the weekend. Somebody get this guy some calming warm milk before he raises the world-wide tariff again. The reaction from business to this crazy leverage trick is to stop all investment until things become more stable. Market crashed.
No Joe, all the tariffs did was steal hundreds of billions of US consumer dollars, increase the trade deficit, lose manufacturing jobs, kill small business and small farmer’s profits, and lower our GDP growth. We even had a negative growth quarter under this strategy. And the tariffs hit the General Fund, where income taxes go, to be used for mandatory and discretionary spending. The business world reacts to crazy, unstable, conditions as you would — they basically shut down and hunker down. It’s bad enough to cede this power to one man, but a petty, vindictive, mercurial, man is even worse.
You didn’t even catch that Trump, in his heart, feels the tariffs are his private piggy bank to spend, just like he used to spend his Trump Charity Foundation funds like his personal piggy bank (had to shut it down for breaking the law). That’s where you get the bogus: “The president has argued Americans will see rebate checks from the revenue the tariffs brought into the treasury, which would help Republicans politically if that money hits people’s bank accounts.” And you have no issue with that either? Leverage? Trump thought this up before the SCOTUS decision as his polling numbers cratered and he began thrashing to figure out how to rig the vote his way. It was $2,000 to be paid before you voted like his ill-fated last stimulus checks. Don’t you get the math here? First he taxes you without representation, collects the money from importers like Walmart, who charge you more to recover the costs, and when he’s losing the vote, turns around and gives you your money back with the intent you will vote his way. And you are OK with that? Amazing.
Fact is Trump is right on one thing, the money is already spent on ICE and other things. We borrow more even. Only big companies will be able to sue and, as Trump says, maybe 5-10 years down the road might see some cash. But the consumer —- no way; not without printing money and taking a bigger loan from China. Target and Walmart footed the bill, passed much of the increase on to the consumer, indirectly in higher prices across the board, and they will get their money back, you will not. Now we can be Americans just like our history of not paying back slaves, native Americans, and others. Yea Trump!
Think about the waste and fraud here. All the people working to get the tariffs, pay the tariffs, and then give the tariffs back. All the people, on all sides, in the legal system working the issue. And for what profit? What adder to the GDP? All for nothing it turns out. A total waste.
Here’s a good one to show how compliant and brain-dead Joe has become in the time of Trump . Joe admits: “in 2025, the U.S. brought in $289 billion from the tariffs and other excise taxes, the Bipartisan Policy Center found.” In the time of Trump, Joe does not even think twice about the strange shit that happens now. Today, Joe has to get his government info from the self-proclaimed most transparent administration in history, Joe has to get Trump data from a third-party that leans-right, think tank because Trump does not report facts. Trump does not report data. From the self-proclaimed most transparent President in history, Joe just accepts this crap as the way it’s supposed to be. Not in my America Joe. Maybe yours, not mine. Trump hides info and you just bend over and ask for more. You even convince yourself there’s nothing in the Epstein files as the files cause resignations and arrests around the world. Everywhere but Trumpistan where Epstein buddies like Lutnick get high paying powerful government jobs instead. You overlook that Bondi and Blanche saw the files and knew Lutnick was lying to Congress before he even testified. And they did nothing and you are OK with that. And giving Noem her own custom private jet to fly and have adultery with a married man in privacy but claim its for deportations. I bet they like the bar, it ain’t mini. Or the sex scandal ridden Labor Secretary and her likewise abusing husband who may be the first husband banned from government buildings. No Joe, I think you turn a blind eye to things you would have waged war over IF it happened on Biden’s watch. And it’s only year one.
I just laugh at you being taxed without Congressional authorization for $289 billion and your being OK with that. You have been duped into believing a bogus “leverage” theory. All you are getting is less business, less product, less GDP, higher inflation and unemployment, less factory workers, and worse. Seeing tariffs as anything better than a short-term, emergency fix, for an international trade inequity is bone-headed. Are we giddy, hardly. Vindicated, bloody well yes. Think hard Joe — this was so bad that EVEN Trump’s hand-picked SCOTUS said; ENOUGH. Joe, we really don’t need more ammo for November. This guy is losing it, shooting himself in the foot daily, and tonight will be a very special SoTU. I am wagering on how often “Biden” is called out and how soon into the speech it will start. I got 90 seconds and 12 occurrences in the Democrat pool. And then we will plan how illegals will vote for us in Florida. Or how we get all pilots to be trans. Seriously, in January, you will remember what a strong, effective, Congress is like. We may even bring Pelosi back.
Trump’s moto: are you not entertained?
Both Mike and frank miss the entire point. We were ALREADY footing the bill on tariffs AGAINST us. If you look at tariffs ONLY from the perspective of American consumers, you MISS American businesses that are having trouble selling overseas due to high tariffs there. In addition, the IDEA is to bring the other guy to the table to negotiate lower tariffs across the board. The ignorance of the American people when it comes to economics is astounding, and this is JUST what the democrats want, and prey upon.
AI: thanks for the illumination. Good discussion to have. Let me see if I understand your concept. American businesses cannot sell goods overseas because we buy too much and they, not so much. We say it’s trade barriers. We also want them to balance trade, to buy as much from us as we do from them. So, the goal is to balance trade.
So, to force their hand in trade negotiations, we let one man tax us as specifically against the Constitution and our Republic’s very creation in order to artificially increase their prices to us, via an arbitrary tax set by one man, and one man alone, to force them to buy more of our stuff that’s already more expensive than their stuff. And his “science” mandates that he changes this based on his mood many times.
Field of economic dreams? If you charge them more, they will build more? If you make their price too expensive, they will negotiate with you to buy more from us in order than we lower our tax on ourselves? Weird economics for sure.
Somehow I do not see “free market” in letting one man arbitrarily set taxes on specific countries forcing us to pay this taxation without representation, a concept that launched a revolution against the most powerful King in the world. And we won!
You note he’s doing it to countries with high tariffs. Name some and show us how a year’s worth of tariff retaliation is working. Hint: China was at 31% before Trump’s war. Brazil India, South Africa, —- so how is it working? Show us any trade negotiations going on, or tell us the tracking on the ones completed. You know nothing, you hear nothing, you have no idea of the results, because one man rules it all, one man tells you what he thinks you need to know. I showed you the 2025 results, the bottom line, and it’s not grand. Not end of the world, but not trending better either as we enter year two of TTW (trump trade wars).
You see a singular focus and goal I see Trump setting tariffs for all sorts of reasons, some downright personal, some downright emotional, not just for economics. He tariffs for drugs, he tariffs for immigration, he tariffs cuz someone dissed him. This is not economics, this is dealmaking by thuggery by one man using our economy as a sledgehammer where we foot the bill. Come on, where’s the science in his 10% across the board to wage a global trade war against all nations. And then, change it to 15% the next day after mulling it over, perhaps some good drugs? Think about it: how much has tariffs cost the taxpayer in legal fees alone —- just to fight it, or fight against it. Both sides wasting money on legalities over what?
Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which raised U.S. tariffs to some of the highest levels in history, contributing to a severe drop in global trade just before The Great Depression. Trump has admired Hoover’s economics; others use the word, disaster. I think he thinks he’s more in touch with William McKinley, known as the “Napoleon of Protectionism,” who sponsored from the House, the 1890 McKinley Tariff raising duties on imports to record levels to protect American manufacturers. McKinley attempts to use the tariff to force the annexation of Canada failed, sound familiar? In this case, Canada strengthened its ties to England. The tariff raised average duties to nearly 50%, forcing farmers to pay more for machinery and goods while facing lower prices for their own products on international markets causing many bankruptcies and loss of family farms. McKinley lost the House in 1890 due to tariffs, he lost in the 1892 elections too. His tariffs were killed in about 3.5 years. He tried again as President in 1897; these lasted over a decade raising the US cost of living by 25%. Many think their longevity was somewhat due to McKinley being assassinated by an anarchist in 1901. Teddy Roosevelt took over ushering in a new Republican age of anti-trust and the Republican Progressive Era. I say be more TR and less Hoover/McKinley.
I see no benefit so far to Trump’s tariff strategy and much self-inflicted pain from them.
Big Al, In addition to what Frank says, you miss the point (as does demented don) that trade is not just goods, but includes (or should include) services. It is in this area that the US is much more competitive, and needs to be figured into the trade deficit numbers. The cost of living on the US is too high for us to be truly competitive in most goods, so while tariffs might bring some manufacturing back to the US and these goods might be more affordable for US consumers than imported items, they will not be more affordable for the rest of the world, so the companies will not make large amounts of money. The US economy needs to focus on making what we do well (as well as what we need for national security) and limit tariffs so that the American public gets the best deal possible. Blanket tariffs are in a single word stupid-lesson that was thought to be learned in the early ‘30’s, but the disaster in Washington was never a scholar, nor are his ass lockers that ‘advise’ him…
Mike F as in fag Trump kicked the colored bitch’s ass. Demented?? Hardly. But you and Dunger? Another story.