{"id":7067,"date":"2026-02-28T03:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:24:18","slug":"maryland-officials-demand-4b-tariff-reimbursement-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7067","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Officials Demand $4B Tariff Reimbursement From Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Several Maryland officials demanded that President Donald Trump issue a $4 billion tariff reimbursement after the Supreme Court struck down Trump\u2019s global tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">In a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.maryland.gov\/news\/press\/Documents\/2.27.26%20Maryland%20Tariff%20Reimbursement%20Request%20Signed%20Final.pdf\">letter<\/a> addressed to Trump from Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD), Maryland Comptroller Brooke E. Lierman, and Maryland State Treasurer Dereck E. Davis, Maryland was described as being a \u201cstate built on trade, innovation, and hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>The letter also claimed that data from the U.S. Joint Economic Committee estimated that \u201cthe Trump Administration\u2019s tariff actions cost American consumers approximately $1,744 per household.\u201d The letter added that \u201caccounting for Maryland\u2019s approximately 2.4 million households,\u201d it is estimated that businesses and consumers in the state \u201cbore an estimated $4 billion in direct and indirect tariff-related costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen your Administration imposed these tariffs, Maryland businesses were forced to respond,\u201d Moore and the other officials said. \u201cCompanies that important good paid directly at the border; those that rely on imported materials, equipment, and components absorbed higher input costs. In both cases, those costs were passed along to consumers, raising prices for working families already confronting a difficult cost of living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">The letter continued:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The financial toll on our state has been significant. Based on data from the U.S. Joint Economic Committee, which estimates that the Trump Administration\u2019s tariff actions cost American consumers approximately $1,744 per household, and accounting for Maryland\u2019s approximately 2.4 million households, our offices estimate that Maryland businesses and consumers bore an estimated $4 billion in direct and indirect tariff-related costs during the period these unconstitutional measures were in effect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2027415980943552656\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovWesMoore\/status\/2027415980943552656\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Moore and the other officials added that the Supreme Court\u2019s 6-3 ruling made it clear that the \u201ctariffs were imposed without constitutional authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe power to levy taxes and tariffs belongs to Congress\u00a0\u2014 not the Executive Branch,\u201d the letter adds. \u201cThat foundational principle was violated when your Administration unilaterally imposed sweeping global tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore and the other officials added that they were \u201cformally\u201d requesting that the Trump administration \u201ctake immediate steps to refund to the State of Maryland the tariff revenues unlawfully collected\u201d from businesses and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News\u2019s John Carney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2026\/02\/20\/scotus-strikes-down-tariffs\/\">reported<\/a> at the time that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority that Trump \u201cexceeded his authority by invoking emergency powers to impose duties on virtually every country\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ruling is the first time the high court has definitively struck down one of Trump\u2019s second-term policies. In other areas, the court has granted Trump broad latitude to deploy executive power, but a majority of justices said he went too far in enacting his most sweeping tariffs without clear authorizations from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Trump imposed the tariffs in two waves. In February 2025, he placed 25 percent duties on most Canadian and Mexican imports and 10 percent on Chinese goods, citing fentanyl trafficking. Then in April, on what he dubbed \u201cLiberation Day,\u201d he imposed a general 10 percent tariff on imports from nearly all countries and steeper rates on nations the administration deemed trade violators.<\/p>\n<p>Trump declared overdose deaths from fentanyl and persistent annual trade deficits to be national emergencies that justified the new trade policy under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law Congress passed to give presidents tools for responding to foreign crises.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was one of the justices that dissented, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/20\/report-donald-trump-slams-supreme-court-tariff-ruling-as-disgrace\/\">hinted<\/a> there may be a \u201cpath forward for future tariffs.\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although I firmly disagree with the Court\u2019s holding today, the decision might not substantially constrain a President\u2019s ability to order tariffs going forward. That is because numerous other federal statutes authorize the President to impose tariffs and might justify most (if not all) of the tariffs at issue in this case\u2014albeit perhaps with a few additional procedural steps that IEEPA, as an emergency statute, does not require. Those statutes include, for example, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Section 232); the Trade Act of 1974 (Sections 122, 201, and 301); and the Tariff Act of 1930 (Section 338). In essence, the Court today concludes that the President checked the wrong statutory box by relying on IEEPA rather than another statute to impose these tariffs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump later revealed that he had signed a Proclamation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/20\/trump-signs-global-ten-percent-tariff-on-all-countries\/\">imposing\u00a0<\/a>\u201ca Global\u201d 10 percent on all countries. A White House fact sheet explained that Trump was \u201cinvoking his authority under section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116144649664906576\">post<\/a> on Truth Social from Trump on Friday, he expressed that the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision on tariffs \u201ccould allow for Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to be returned to Countries and Companies\u201d that have been ripping the United States off.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/27\/maryland-officials-demand-4b-tariff-reimbursement-from-trump\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Maryland officials demanded that President Donald Trump issue a $4 billion tariff reimbursement after the Supreme Court struck down Trump\u2019s global tariffs imposed under the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}