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Today, Explained

Trump’s emergency powers grab

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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President Donald Trump has declared an unprecedented number of national emergencies. He's used them to wage a trade war, deport people, and speed up oil drilling. And more could be coming. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office. Photo by Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Plenty of people have been caught up in President Trump's emergency declarations.

0:06.0

The most high profile are undocumented immigrants.

0:09.0

But there's also Victor Owen Schwartz, who imports wine.

0:13.0

Georgina Terry, who sells bikes for independent women.

0:16.0

Why pay me to fix a flat tire when you can figure it out on your own?

0:20.0

David Levi, who makes

0:21.2

kicky little musical toys like a banana keyboard, and Dan Pastori, who sells fishing gear. This

0:28.9

week, they're all in court suing President Trump because his tariffs hurt their businesses.

0:33.6

Trump says he can unilaterally levy tariffs because he has declared an emergency.

0:38.6

The court is going to decide whether that's legal.

0:41.3

It is possibly the biggest self-inflicted economic blow that the United States has done to itself in my lifetime.

0:50.9

And the courts could just make that all go away.

0:53.2

So, you know, that's exciting.

0:55.1

That's ahead on Today Explained.

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1:05.8

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1:14.4

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1:35.0

And we're back, folks.

1:36.3

It looks like Jim from sales just got in from his client lunch, and he's got receipts.

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