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Kevin Hassett, Director of the White House Economic Council Donald Trumps Tariff agenda.
Hassett gave the explanation during an appearance on Sunday morning in ABCS “this week” and said moderator George Stephanopoulos that the White House is still expecting “plan”.
“And so we are very enthusiastic. We are very confident that the judges would maintain this law. And so I think this is plan A, and we are very, very confident that Plan A is everything we will ever need,” said Hassett.
“But if a judge should say for any reason that it is not a national emergency if more Americans die from fentanyl than ever died in all American wars, this is not an emergency that the President has authority.
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Kevin Hassett, director of the White House Economic Council, defended President Donald Trump’s tariff plan on Sunday. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Hassetts appeared after a Federal Court of Trump had put down in a judgment last week, only so that an appellate court only spends a temporary stay for protecting the tariffs during the legal disputes.
The appellate court judgment A decision held Through the US Court of International Trade (CIT), so that Trump continues to enable the 10% basic tariff and the so-called “mutual tariffs”, which he announced on April 2 in accordance with the International Emergency Economic Power Act or IEPA.
The CIT had ruled unanimously to block the tariffs the day before.
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President Donald Trump used the risk of tariffs during his first months of office. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Members of the three-judge committee, which were appointed by Trump, the former president, Barack Obama And former President Ronald Reagan unanimously decided that Trump had exceeded his authority under IEEPA.
They found that Trump as commander -in -chief does not have “unlimited authority” in order to impose tariffs according to the emergency law.
President Donald Trump holds a table when he delivers comments on mutual tariffs during an event in the rose garden entitled Make America in the White House in Washington, DC (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
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At the moment, the burden of proof is moving to the government, which the court has to convince that it will suffer “irreparable damage” if the injunction remains, a high legal standard that the Trump administration must meet.
Breanen Deppisch from Fox News contributed to this report
