Meta Lines Up Massive Supply of Nuclear Power to Energize AI Data Centers

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Meta Lines Up Massive Supply of Nuclear Power to Energize AI Data Centers

(Headline USA) Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes.

The parent company of Facebook on Friday announced agreements with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra for nuclear power for its Prometheus AI data center that is being built in New Albany, Ohio. Meta announced Prometheus, which will be a 1-gigawatt cluster spanning across multiple data center buildings, in July. It’s anticipated to come online this year.

Financial terms of the deals with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra were not disclosed.

The Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta said in a statement on Friday that the three deals will support up to 6.6 gigawatts of new and existing clean energy by 2035. A single gigawatt, according to a general industry standard for utilities, can power about 750,000 homes.

“These projects add reliable and firm power to the grid, reinforce America’s nuclear supply chain, and support new and existing jobs to build and operate American power plants,” the company said.

Meta said its agreement with TerraPower will provide funding that supports the development of two new Natrium units capable of generating up to 690 megawatts of firm power with delivery as early as 2032. The deal also provides Meta with rights for energy from up to six other Natrium units capable of producing 2.1 gigawatts and targeted for delivery by 2035.

Meta will also buy more than 2.1 gigawatts of energy from two operating Vistra nuclear power plants in Ohio, in addition to the energy from expansions at the two Ohio plants and a third Vistra plant in Pennsylvania.

The deal with Oklo, which counts OpenAI’s Sam Altman as one of its largest investors, will help to develop a 1.2 gigawatt power campus in Pike County, Ohio to support Meta’s data centers in the region.

The nuclear power agreements come after Meta announced in June that it reached a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press. 

 

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Family Bodyguard Arrested on Drug Trafficking Charges

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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Family Bodyguard Arrested on Drug Trafficking Charges

(Headline USA) Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed alarm that a man who worked as his family’s bodyguard is facing federal drug trafficking charges.

Justin Salsburey, 43, of Bellefontaine, and his wife, Ruthann Rankin, were each charged late last month with conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute large amounts of narcotics through the U.S. mail.

Salsburey was employed by a private security firm hired by the Ramaswamys for protective services, according to campaign spokesperson Connie Luck. She said that ARK Protection Group removed him from the family’s security detail immediately upon learning of the matter.

According to the criminal complaints, 261 parcels containing counterfeit OxyContin and other pills were delivered to the couple’s western Ohio home between August 2024 and last month. Rankin has been removed from her employment as a schoolteacher in nearby Urbana, according to a statement posted by the district.

Salsburey is being held in the Franklin County jail in Columbus, according to the facility’s website. It was not clear whether Rankin is being held.

“Vivek’s family contracts with a private security firm for protective services and was alarmed to hear this disturbing news,” Luck said in a text.

She said that Salsburey had cleared multiple background checks run by the security company, the FBI and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation prior to his employment. The most recent one was conducted by Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center in September, she said.

Salsburey also passed a pre-employment drug test and never failed a random drug screening, Luck said. A message left with an attorney who represented Salsburey in the past was not immediately returned.

“Vivek and his family take matters of safety seriously and support efforts to hold these individuals accountable for these allegations if they are proven,” Luck said.
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Trump Slashes Guest Worker Visas Program

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Trump Slashes Guest Worker Visas Program

(José Niño, Headline USA) The Trump administration has sharply curtailed supplemental visas for seasonal workers, reducing allocations by nearly half compared to recent years, per a report by Newsweek. The move comes as industries nationwide grapple with persistent labor shortages and an exodus of immigrant workers from the economy.

The Department of Labor announced on December 31 that it would authorize 35,000 supplemental H-2B visas for fiscal year 2026. That figure represents a steep decline from the 64,716 supplemental visas issued annually under the Biden administration, which utilized the full discretionary authority granted by Congress.

The H-2B program enables U.S. employers to hire temporary foreign workers for seasonal positions when domestic labor proves insufficient. Industries ranging from hospitality to landscaping rely heavily on these allocations to maintain operations during peak periods.

Congress established a baseline cap of 66,000 H-2B visas annually, split evenly between fiscal year halves. Since 2017, lawmakers have authorized additional supplemental visas beyond that statutory limit, allowing the Department of Homeland Security and Labor Department to respond to market demands. Under this framework, total H-2B allocations previously reached approximately 130,716 annually.

“The Departments will focus these additional H-2B visas, nearly a 50 percent reduction in the total supplemental visas released as compared to FY 2023-2025, to support American businesses with seasonal or temporary workforce needs in critical infrastructure sectors of the U.S. economy, such as seafood, forestry, hospitality and tourism, transportation, and manufacturing,” the DOL stated in its announcement.

Industry representatives expressed measured approval while pressing for systemic reforms. “AHLA applauds the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor for releasing thousands of additional H-2B visas,” said Rosanna Maietta, president and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. “These visas will make it easier for small business hoteliers to access the seasonal workers they need, particularly in the face of ongoing staffing shortages. While we welcome this decision, we urge Congress and the Administration to create a more predictable system based on the need for workers instead of the arbitrary, outdated H-2B visa caps in place today.”

The Labor Department indicated a temporary final rule codifying the visa release will be published in coming weeks.

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino 

Prosecutor Calls Newsom ‘King of Fraud’ for Oversight Failures

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Prosecutor Calls Newsom ‘King of Fraud’ for Oversight Failures

(, The Center Square) U.S. First Assistant Attorney Bill Essayli Thursday called California Gov. Gavin Newsom “the king of fraud,” accusing him of a lack of oversight on spending to address homelessness.

Essayli made the comments on the “Fox and Friends” telecast, during which he discussed the federal fraud charges that were filed in October against real estate executives Steven Taylor and Cody Holmes for allegedly misusing grant money meant for homeless housing.

Holmes, 31, of Beverly Hills was charged with mail fraud charge that was allegedly linked to millions of dollars in grant money that the state paid Shangri-La Industries to purchase, build and operate homeless housing in Thousand Oaks, just north of Los Angeles. Holmes was Shangri-La’s chief financial officer.

Taylor, 44, of Brentwood, was charged with seven counts of bank fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of money laundering.

Essayli Thursday said the charges are the “tip of the iceberg” in an investigation he launched with a task force in April. He said more charges would be coming, probably later this month.

The state spent $24 billion in the last five years to address homelessness and can’t account for where the money went, Essayli said on “Fox and Friends.”

President Donald Trump on Tuesday on X said,  “California, under Governor Gavin Newscum, is more corrupt than Minnesota, if that’s possible??? The Fraud investigation of California has begun.”

Newsom’s press office fired back on X. It called Trump a liar and noted Newsom has “BLOCKED $125 billion in fraud, arrested criminal parasites leaching off of taxpayers, and protected taxpayers from the exact kind of scam artists Trump celebrates, excuses, and pardons.”

The Center Square reached out Thursday afternoon to the governor’s office, but did not get a response.

When The Center Square asked the White House Thursday about Newsom, the press office pointed to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s comments during a press briefing on Wednesday. Leavitt told reporters that Trump has directed all agencies to look at federal spending programs “in not just Minnesota, but also in the state of California, to identify fraud and to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, all those who have committed it.”

The Center Square also reached out to the U.S. Department of Justice, but spokesperson Ciaran McEvoy said the DOJ had no additional comment.

But two Republican legislators in Sacramento Thursday shared their views about Newsom with The Center Square.

“When you talk about the amounts of billions of dollars the governor’s spent in homelessness, he could almost buy a home for every homeless person,” state Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach, told The Center Square at the Capitol after Newsom’s final State of the State address.

“There’s no question there is waste in there, and certainly, we need to look to see if there’s fraud and abuse,” Strickland said. “So I welcome the investigation, because we need to maximize every dollar that comes into the state coffers.”

Strickland stressed he wants to learn the truth.

“Those who abused the power and those who wasted dollars and abused tax dollars should be prosecuted,” he said. “Then we should root out waste, because every dollar that is wasted is a dollar that we take from a hard-working citizen who is just trying to make it.

“In California right now, we have an affordability crisis and these are precious dollars, and by Gov. Newsom’s own admission, revenues are up, so California doesn’t have a revenue problem,” Strickland said. “It has a wasteful spending problem.”

Izzy Swindler, a spokesperson for Assemblymember Tom Lackey, said the Palmdale Republican has always supported oversight on spending.

“It is his belief that we should be accountable to our dollars and be able to track the results that come from the taxpayer funded programs,” Swindler said, answering The Center Square’s questions by email. “Accountability should always be at the forefront of discussions. Especially when we are referring to homelessness programs that have been allocated billions of dollars over the past few years.”

Madeline Shannon, a staff writer with The Center Square, contributed to this report.

US Oil Companies Want Guarantees from Trump Before Investing in Venezuela

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US Oil Companies Want Guarantees from Trump Before Investing in Venezuela

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US oil companies want “serious guarantees” from the Trump administration before making large investments in Venezuela, according to a report from the Financial Times.

After launching the attack on Caracas that killed around 100 people and resulted in the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro, Trump said the US would “run” Venezuela and that US oil companies would be investing heavily in the country, but oil executives appear to be worried about the risks.

Trump is set to meet with oil executives at the White House on Friday, and, according to the Financial Times report, they are expected to ask the president for strong legal and financial guarantees before committing capital to Venezuela.

“There would have to be some serious guarantees from the government to get the big boys back in Venezuela,” an unnamed executive of a major US energy firm told Financial Times. “It’s going to take a while to see real investment in the country and then longer to get production up.”

Amos Hochstein, who worked as an energy advisor in the Biden administration and is not a managing partner at the investment group TWG Global, noted that by the time the oil companies saw revenue from new investments in Venezuela, Trump would no longer be president.

One major question about Trump’s plan for Venezuela is whether the Venezuelan government will go along with it. While Acting President Delcy Rodriguez has said she’s open to “cooperation” with the US, it’s unclear if she will capitulate to all of Trump’s demands, which he is making under the threat of a new US attack.

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com.

 

Trump Says He Expects To ‘Run’ Venezuela for Years

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Trump Says He Expects To ‘Run’ Venezuela for Years

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump has told The New York Times that he expects to “run” Venezuela for many years following the US attack on Caracas to abduct President Nicolas Maduro.

By “running” Venezuela, the president appears to mean controlling its oil industry and getting access to the country’s vast oil reserves, the largest in the world, for more American companies.

“We will rebuild it in a very profitable way,” he told the paper. “We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil. We’re getting oil prices down, and we’re going to be giving money to Venezuela, which they desperately need.”

When asked how long he expects the US to remain Venezuela’s “political overlord,” three months, six months, or a year, the president said, “I would say much longer.”

Trump has threatened to attack Venezuela again and potentially send troops, but declined to say what sort of situation could lead to that. “I wouldn’t want to tell you that,” he said.

Trump and his top officials have said that the US will be controlling Venezuela’s oil sales and will start by acquiring 30 million to 50 million barrels. However, Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA, has framed the deal as a routine sale of oil to the US, similar to its dealings with Chevron, which continues to operate in the country.

Trump insisted to the Times that Venezuela’s government, which is currently led by Acting President Delcy Rodriguez, Maduro’s vice president, is “giving us everything that we feel is necessary.”

Rodriguez has said that no “foreign agent” is running Venezuela and has maintained that Maduro is the rightful president and must be released by the US. “Today, more than ever, the Bolivarian political forces stand firm and united to guarantee the stability of our nation,” she said in a post on Telegram on Thursday.

“Together with the Great Patriotic Pole Simón Bolívar (GPPSB), we have reviewed and cohesively adopted three lines of action: the release of our heroes, President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores; preserving peace and stability throughout the national territory; and consolidating governance for the benefit of our people,” she added.

ICE Officer Who Shot Woman Was Previously Hit and Dragged by Vehicle Last June

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ICE Officer Who Shot Woman Was Previously Hit and Dragged by Vehicle Last June

(Headline USA) The federal agent who shot and killed a driver who hit him in Minneapolis is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and who just months ago was hit and dragged by a vehicle driven by a fleeing illegal immigrant, according to The Associated Press.

Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Renee Good on Wednesday, has served as a deportation officer with ICE since 2015, records show. He was seriously injured last summer when he was dragged by the vehicle of a fleeing illegal immigrant.

Noem and other Trump administration officials have defended Ross as an experienced law enforcement professional who followed his training and shot Good after he believed she was trying to run him or other agents over with her vehicle. Video shows he was struck by the vehicle before he shot.

The FBI is investigating the deadly use of force. Some protesters are demanding that Ross face criminal charges, and Minnesota authorities also want to investigate.

Attempts to reach Ross, 43, at phone numbers and email addresses associated with him were not immediately successful.

Here are some things to know about him:

Experienced military and law enforcement officer

In courtroom testimony last month, Ross said he deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 with the Indiana National Guard. Ross said he served as a machine gunner on a gun truck as part of a combat patrol team.

He said he returned from Iraq in 2005, went to college and joined the Border Patrol in 2007 near El Paso, Texas. He worked there until 2015, serving as a field intelligence agent gathering and analyzing information on cartels and drug and human smuggling.

Ross said he has served as a deportation officer based in Minnesota since he joined ICE in 2015. He is assigned to fugitive operations, seeking to arrest “higher value targets” in the ICE region that includes Minneapolis, he testified last month. He said that he was also a team leader with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

“So I develop the targets, create a target package, surveillance, and then develop a plan to execute the arrest warrant,” he said.

Ross said that he was also a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor, a field intelligence officer and member of the SWAT team. He said that he attended the Border Patrol’s academy in New Mexico, where he learned to speak Spanish.

Seriously injured last June

Ross was a leader of a team of agents who went to arrest a man who was in the U.S. illegally in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington on June 17. Agents had gathered outside the home of the man, Roberto Munoz-Guatemala, who left in his car, according to court records.

FBI agents activated emergency sirens and lights instructing him to pull over but he did not. Ross pulled his vehicle diagonally in front of Munoz-Guatemala to force him to stop.

Ross and an FBI agent identified themselves as police and pointed guns at Munoz-Guatemala, who raised his hands. Ross then approached Munoz-Guatemala’s vehicle and ordered him to put it in park.

Ross told the driver to lower his window all the way down and warned that he would break it if he did not. Ross used a device known as a “spring-loaded window punch” to break the rear driver’s side window and reached inside the car to unlock the driver’s door.

Munoz-Guatemela drove off while Ross’ arm was caught in the vehicle and accelerated, dragging Ross down the street. Ross fired his Taser, striking Munoz-Guatemala with prongs in the head, face and shoulder.

Munoz-Guatemela was not incapacitated by the Taser, prosecutors said, and kept driving, taking Ross the length of a football field in 12 seconds. Ross was knocked free from the vehicle by force after Munoz-Guatemala drove onto a curb for a second time and back to the street.

Ross’ right arm was bleeding, and an FBI agent applied a tourniquet. Eventually, he received dozens of stitches at a hospital. Prosecutors said he had “suffered multiple large cuts, and abrasions to his knee, elbow, and face.”

“It was pretty excruciating pain,” Ross testified.

Munoz-Guatemela was bleeding from his injuries and had a woman call 911, saying that he was assaulted and didn’t know whether the person trying to stop him was an officer. He was arrested and charged with assault on a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon.

A jury found Munoz-Guatemala guilty at a trial last month, finding he “should reasonably have known that Jonathan Ross was a law enforcement officer and not a private citizen attempting to assault him.”

Federal officials defend the agent without identifying him

Vice President J.D. Vance praised the agent’s service to the country Thursday without naming him, saying the ICE officer “deserves a debt of gratitude.”

“This is a guy who’s actually done a very, very important job for the United States of America,” Vance said. “He’s been assaulted. He’s been attacked. He’s been injured because of it.”

DHS assistant Tricia McLaughlin declined to confirm the agent’s identity Thursday, saying doing so would be dangerous for the safety of him and his family. But she noted that he had been selected for ICE’s special response team, which includes a 30-hour tryout and additional training on specialized skills such as breaching techniques, perimeter control, hostage rescue and firearms.

“He acted according to his training,” she said. “This officer is a longtime ICE officer who has been serving his country his entire life.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

WATCH: Vance Addresses Minneapolis Shooting, Questions Leftwing Influence

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WATCH: Vance Addresses Minneapolis Shooting, Questions Leftwing Influence

(, The Center Square) Vice President JD Vance on Thursday questioned potential leftwing involvement in the shooting death of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.

Vance hosted a press briefing at the White House on Thursday afternoon, addressing questions swirling around the death of Renee Good, 37, who was shot and killed on Wednesday after an ICE officer opened fire on her vehicle, claiming self-defense.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said the vehicle was “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers.” She also said the officer feared for his life and fired defensive shots. The agent struck by Good’s car was treated and released from a hospital.

The vice president and the administration are raising concerns that the incident may have been a part of a rise in leftwing protests and violence.

The Center Square asked the vice president if there were any indications that Good may have been a paid agitator?

“I wouldn’t say that she was paid. I don’t have the evidence to say that one way or the other. What I do know is that she was violating the law, and if you just look at the eyewitness accounts, they were saying she was there to prevent the enforcement of the law, she was trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement operation, that much is obviously clear. The rest of it, of course, is part of the reason why we investigate,” the vice president told The Center Square.

City and state leaders challenged DHS’ assertion that the ICE officer was acting in self defense after several videos surfaced showing the incident.

“Having seen the video myself, I want to tell people directly, that is bulls—,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said at a news conference Wednesday.

Assaults against ICE officers increased by 1,000% increase in 2025, The Center Square first reported, including the use of vehicles in attempts to block ICE agents from doing their jobs. Car attacks on officers and agents are up over 3,200% since last year. Death threats against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are up by 8,000% compared to the same timeframe last year, DHS has said.

In addition to fielding questions regarding the shooting, Vance announced the creation of a new assistant attorney general position with nationwide jurisdiction over fraud. The position arises amid allegations of fraud in Minnesota, specifically involvng the Somali community.

The vice president said the administration plans to nominate someone to the position in the next few days, with “swift confirmation” in the U.S. Senate.

Brown/MIT Shooter Reportedly ‘Vanished’ 12 Years before His Attack

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Brown/MIT Shooter Reportedly ‘Vanished’ 12 Years before His Attack

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The man who allegedly killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor last month had “vanished” from his friends and family some 12 years earlier, according to a profile in the New York Times.

The alleged shooter, 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente, was once a promising physics student. He was briefly in Brown University’s doctoral program in 2000, but dropped out after only a year.

Upon returning to Portugal, he reportedly “grew remote and avoided conversations with her altogether,” the New York Times reported Thursday. And after his cousin tragically died in 2013, he reportedly “vanished” altogether.

“From 2013 on, Mr. Neves Valente left almost no signs of where he lived or worked, in Portugal or the United States. He stopped responding to former colleagues, or attending the dinners held by his college classmates. And he never saw his family again,” the Times reported.

“His mother told friends and neighbors that Mr. Neves Valente had mental health issues but refused to seek treatment. Recently, she confided to a relative her fear that the next time she got word of Claudio, he would be dead.”

Neves Valente eventually obtained legal permanent residence status in September 2017. His last known residence was in Miami.

Neves Valente emerged last month at Brown University, where he killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building on Dec. 13. Two days later, he killed MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline.

Justice Department officials said Tuesday that during the search of the storage facility where Neves Valente’s body was found on Dec. 18, the FBI recovered an electronic device containing a series of short videos made by Neves Valente after the shootings.

In the recordings, the shooter admits in Portuguese that he had been “planning the Brown University shooting for a long time,” according to a press release. In a transcript provided by the Justice Department, he said he had been working out details for at least six semesters. He did not provide a motive for targeting Brown or the MIT professor, with whom he attended school in Portugal decades ago.

He said he felt he had nothing to apologize for. He also complained in the videos about injuring his eye in the shootings.

“I’m not going to apologize because during my lifetime no one sincerely apologized to me,” he said.

Neves Valente said his “only objective was to leave more or less” on his “own terms” and to ensure he “wouldn’t be the one who ended up suffering the most from all this.”

According to police, a witness had several encounters with Neves Valente before the attack at Brown. As police posted images of the person of interest, the witness began posting on the social media forum Reddit that he recognized the person and theorized that police should look into “possibly a rental” gray Nissan. Reddit users urged him to inform the FBI, and the witness said he did.

Up until that point, the police affidavit says officials had not connected a vehicle to the possible shooter.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Supreme Court Could Rule on Trump’s Tariff Authority Friday

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Supreme Court Could Rule on Trump’s Tariff Authority Friday

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court could issue a landmark ruling Friday on President Donald Trump’s authority to use tariffs, potentially reshaping presidential power.

Alan Morrison, a law professor at The George Washington University, said signs indicate a ruling on tariffs is expected on Friday.

“It seems highly unlikely that the court would come back for anything but a very, very important case three days before they’re going to come back anyway,” he told The Center Square.

Morrison said if Trump wins on tariffs, the scope of presidential power would grow significantly for the administration and all future presidents.

“If the court upholds these taxes, then essentially they’re telling the President he can do anything he wants to do, and the court is going to step aside,” Morrison said.

Trump has made tariffs, which are taxes on products imported from outside the U.S., central to both his domestic and foreign agendas during his second term. Last April, Trump imposed import taxes of at least 10% on every U.S. trading partner. Since then, the president has suspended, changed, increased, decreased and re-imposed tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

That law doesn’t mention the word “tariff” and had never been used to impose them before Trump did so last year. A group of states and small businesses challenged Trump’s tariffs under the 1977 law, winning in two lower courts before the Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court.

The high court agreed to hear the case on an expedited basis, given the economic stakes at issue. The Trump administration could be forced to refund more than $133.5 billion in tariffs to importers if the Supreme Court sides with the states and small businesses in the case.

Trump has called the case one of the most important of all time and said that an unfavorable ruling could result in economic ruin for the U.S.

Phillip Magness, senior fellow at the Independent Institute, said Trump’s claims of ruin are exaggerated.

“Trump has made a number of wildly exaggerated economic claims,” Magness told The Center Square. “These numbers are nonsensical and appear to have zero basis in reality.”

More realistically, the U.S. would have to refund about $200 billion in tariff revenue it has collected so far, Magness said.

“While this is a loss of revenue to the government, it’s also a tax refund that will go to U.S. companies,” he said.

Those businesses could pass savings along to consumers, Magness added.

Magness said a ruling against the administration could lower consumer prices and end tariff uncertainty.

Companies have already started lining up for potential refunds. Hundreds of companies, including some big ones such as Costco, have filed for refunds with the U.S. Court of International Trade.

The scope of the Supreme Court’s ruling could determine what happens next, Magness said.

“The Supreme Court has wide leeway on how it will rule in this case,” he said. “One possibility is that they limit relief (i.e. a refund) only to the companies that are parties to the lawsuit in the case. That would precipitate additional litigation though at the U.S. Court of International Trade, which has already signalled that it will require the government to refund illegal IEEPA tariffs in other lawsuits going forward.”

Magness said other U.S. laws that allow the president to impose tariffs are “substantially more restrictive” than the authority Trump cites under the IEEPA to issue tariffs of any rate for any length of time.

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