"We're going to pay tariffs back," Trump says if SC upturns tariffs
Jan 21, 2026
Washington DC [US], January 21 : US President Donald Trump has said that if the United States Supreme Court ruling is not in his administration's favour, he will do his best to pay the tariffs back.
Trump further said that the US has significant national security benefits from tariffs.
He said, "I don't know what the Supreme Court is going to do... Tariff is probably less severe than what a license could be... I don't know where there's a case even there, but we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars, and if we lose that case, it's possible we're going to have to do the best we can in paying it back. I don't know how that's going to be done very easily without hurting a lot of people. But we're waiting for that case anxiously. We have tremendous national security because of tariffs and tremendous income."
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