Treasury Secretary Gets Testy When Asked if Trump Will Refund Tariffs

CNN The president’s treasury boss lost his cool when asked about tariff refund plans in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that struck down this administration’s signature economic policy . “I do want to start with the big question. Will you refund the roughly $134 billion in revenue taken by these emergency tariffs?” host Dana Bash asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on State of the Union Sunday. Bessent, 63, immediately got defensive, responding: “Well, Dana, that’s not the big question. The—let’s just level set here—what the Supreme Court did was a very narrow reading of the president’s authority under the tariffs." Read more at The Daily Beast.