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Ted Cruz: “Foreign policy under the Constitution is given principally…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Cruz Predicts 5–4 Supreme Court Ruling on Trump Tariffs

Published | Video Starts at 08:31

But I think today, yeah, you're going to get five justices to say we're too far down the road. Too much has been implemented. And this is too core to how this president is implementing foreign policy, because Foreign policy under the Constitution is given principally to the president. And so that's my prediction, is five, four, the court is going to uphold President Trump's tariff authority. What does this also do for the future? (08:31–08:36)

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The Constitution gives foreign policy authority primarily to the president.

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