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Scott Bessent: “The President cannot use the ieepa, the Emergency Economic…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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FULL INTERVIEW: Scott Bessent Holds Interview After Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs

Published | Video Starts at 06:36

It needs to go through Congress. That that is what the Constitution says. Again, Dana, that's not correct. That the, what the Supreme Court said is that The President cannot use the ieepa, the Emergency Economic Powers act to do this. The President does have other authorities. And as I said, the section 232 tariffs and the section 301 tariffs have withstood more than 4,000 have withstood more than 4,001 lawsuits. (06:36–06:42)

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Asserts that the President cannot use the Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs.

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