The court struck down his emergency tariffs and birthright citizenship order, while court filings show about $104.29 billion in tariff refunds had been issued by June 29.
President Trump said the Supreme Court’s recent rulings against his emergency tariffs and executive order restricting birthright citizenship cost the United States “trillions and trillions” of dollars. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, he linked the decisions to losses in both money and national prestige. The high court overturned two major parts of Trump’s agenda during its latest term. In February, the justices ruled he lacked authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (U.S. law used in national emergencies) to unilaterally impose tariffs on trading partners. That decision forced the administration to compensate firms that had paid higher import costs, and a court filing said U.S. Customs and Border Protection had issued roughly $104.29 billion in refunds as of June 29. Trump has since relied on other statutes to impose separate levies. Last month, the court also invalidated his order requiring a child born on U.S. soil to have at least one parent with citizenship or permanent legal status to receive birthright citizenship. Members of the court’s conservative majority sided against the administration in both cases, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett the lone Trump appointee in the majority each time. Trump had said earlier this month that he would ask for a rehearing in the birthright citizenship case, but the deadline for the Justice Department to file that petition passed earlier this week. Multiple GOP lawmakers have introduced legislation to codify the order. Trump has argued the ruling would help U.S. adversaries including Russia and China, while researchers from Princeton University, Cornell University and Notre Dame University estimated earlier this year that beneficiaries of birthright citizenship contributed $7.7 trillion to the American economy through income from 1975 to 2024.