meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
PBS News Hour - Segments

What's next for consumers and the economy after the Supreme Court's tariff ruling

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

After the Supreme Court struck down many of President Trump's global tariffs, he pledged to keep most of them in place through other means. To discuss what the ruling and the president's response mean for the economy, Amna Nawaz spoke with Natasha Sarin, a professor of law and finance at Yale University and president of The Budget Lab at Yale. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

For more on what today's ruling means for the economy, we're joined by Natasha Sarin,

0:05.2

Professor of Law and Finance at Yale University and President of the Budget Lab at Yale.

0:10.3

Good to see, and Natasha. So we got this Supreme Court ruling at 10 o'clock Eastern.

0:14.7

By 2 p.m., the president had announced a new slate of tariffs.

0:17.7

Help us understand which of the tariffs are now gone and which are in place.

0:23.1

So I will say it is a bit of a whirlwind. And the nature of what happened this morning was you

0:29.1

basically had the president having effectuated across the board tariffs on allies and adversaries

0:35.6

alike at levels that we haven't seen in the last century.

0:39.4

The Supreme Court said that about two-thirds of those tariffs, the tariffs that had been

0:43.6

issued under this particular authority called AIPA were invalidated as a result of their

0:48.8

decision. And then, as was widely expected as a result of a decision like this, the president said he

0:55.0

plans to use other authorities like Section 232 or Section 122 of the Trade Act in order to

1:02.5

be able to essentially keep in place tariffs that were at levels that were dismissed by the

1:09.1

Supreme Court earlier this morning. That's actually a harder

1:12.4

thing to do in practice than you might think having listened to the president this afternoon

1:18.7

because there are more rules and process requirements associated with the other authorities

1:24.0

that he's trying to deploy, which is why his preferred authority was one that

1:29.1

the Supreme Court said simply couldn't weather the burden of tariffs as broad-based as those

1:34.5

that this administration has pushed for. And you just heard a little bit about this in the previous

1:38.1

conversation. What about those billions in tariff revenue? Could retailers and manufacturers

1:43.2

see some kind of a refund? Could consumers

1:45.6

as well? You know, what's so interesting is that in oral argument, Justice Sammy Coney Barrett

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from PBS NewsHour, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of PBS NewsHour and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.