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  • Hassett says Supreme Court risks creating tariff refund problem

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    A Supreme Court ruling that scraps Donald Trump’s tariffs — and refunds the import fees collected — would create a major “administrative problem,” the president’s top economic adviser said Sunday. “We really expect the Supreme Court is going to find with us,” Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, told CBS’s Face the Nation. Even if the court didn’t find in the Trump administration’s favor, Hassett argued it would be “pretty unlikely that they’re going to call for widespread refunds because it would be an administrative problem to get those refunds out there.” The ... (full story)

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Schultz
Dec 22, 2025 1:48am
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Quoting NotAtrader
The initial problem was created by D.J.Trump Mr. Hassett.
The initial problem was that D.J.Trump was elected President of the United Staes.
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Schultz
Dec 21, 2025 11:50pm
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a major “administrative problem,” Importers of record would need to receive the refunds and then distribute them to affected customers, he suggested.

Um, yes? That isn't a problem, it is how things are done in the real world with record keeping software. Just push a few buttons and whoosh! Magic.

Perhaps he is only acquainted with record keeping from when he last had a real job and it was all done with a pen and special purpose paper that made a duplicate.

Or I am being optimistic about the current state of technology in the USA?
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marketchaos
Dec 22, 2025 3:04am
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"and refunds the import fees collected" -
and there you have it. Import fees which confirms to even those die hard Trump believers that foreign countries pay the tariffs ( stupidity is widespread amongst Trump supporters) that it's all a lie. The American people are paying the tariffs.
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NotAtrader
Dec 22, 2025 1:20am
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The initial problem was created by D.J.Trump Mr. Hassett.
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Trader#F875
Dec 22, 2025 3:23am
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The market is waiting for Hassett's opinion about disappearing Epstein photos.
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