A major legal showdown over President Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy could be decided within days, but the administration is signaling it is confident the Supreme Court will not stand in the way.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that it is “very unlikely” the Supreme Court will move to block President Donald Trump from using emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs, calling the policy a cornerstone of the president’s economic agenda.
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Bessent suggested the justices have little appetite for stepping into the middle of a major economic and national security dispute.
“I believe that it is very unlikely that the Supreme Court will overrule a president’s signature economic policy,” Bessent said. “They did not overrule Obamacare, I believe that the Supreme Court does not want to create chaos.”
The comments come as the Supreme Court weighs whether Trump can rely on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs without explicit congressional approval. The law gives the president broad authority to act when the nation faces what is defined as an “unusual and extraordinary threat.”
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