Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said it’s “very unlikely” that the Supreme Court will overturn President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs, with a potential decision from the court looming as early as this week.
“I believe that it is very unlikely that the Supreme Court will overrule a president’s signature economic policy,” Bessent said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “They did not overrule Obamacare, I believe that the Supreme Court does not want to create chaos.”
In June, the Supreme Court upheld a key Affordable Care Act provision that set up a panel to recommend preventive care services that insurers must provide at no cost to patients.
Bessent’s comments come one day after Trump said he would impose a new slate of tariffs on goods coming from Europe until “a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”
Trump did not specify in his Truth Social post which statute he was invoking to impose the tariffs, though the move appears to mirror the “liberation day” duties he has imposed on dozens of nations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
