Ex-ActBlue Official Snubs Congressional Fraud Hearing, Triggering Subpoena Threats

Luis Cornelio
-
0
Ex-ActBlue Official Snubs Congressional Fraud Hearing, Triggering Subpoena Threats

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Three House committees have threatened to subpoena a former top ActBlue official after she failed to appear for a transcribed interview as part of the congressional probe into alleged fraud. 

The official, listed as “former senior total rewards specialist,” was requested to testify before the House Judiciary, House Administration, and House Oversight committees in July 2025. After she failed to comply, Reps. Bryan Steil, R-Wis.; Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; and James Comer, R-Ky., sent a follow-up letter on Friday reiterating the committees’ request for voluntary cooperation. Just The News first reported on the letter.

The official’s noncompliance comes months after the House Oversight Committee found that ActBlue made its anti-fraud prevention policies “more lenient” twice in 2024, allowing foreign and domestic fraudulent actors to funnel money into campaigns. 

Headline USA has identified an official whose title and period of employment listed on LinkedIn coincide with the targeted individual, but is withholding her name pending further corroboration. 

At the center of the investigation is the allegation that ActBlue maintained poor fraud-prevention practices that could have opened the door to illegal foreign donations. 

“Your testimony remains necessary for our oversight and we therefore write to reiterate our request for your voluntary cooperation,” they added. 

The official was allegedly terminated after deleting over 1,200 documents in violation of ActBlue’s “Document Retention Policy.” 

The committees gave her until Nov. 21 to schedule a transcribed interview or risk being subpoenaed. 

“The Committees are prepared to resort to compulsory process, if necessary, to obtain compliance with our requests,” they wrote. 

The subpoena threat follows the House Judiciary Committee’s prior actions against two senior ActBlue officials who allegedly failed to appear for voluntary depositions. ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones was also subpoenaed on July 22 for materials related to the congressional probe. 

WATCH: Democrat Walks into Oncoming Traffic to Avoid Explaining Mamdani Endorsement

Editor 1
-
0
WATCH: Democrat Walks into Oncoming Traffic to Avoid Explaining Mamdani Endorsement

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A Democrat candidate in Wisconsin was caught jaywalking into oncoming traffic Friday in an apparent attempt to evade questions about her endorsement of New York City’s communist mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani.

In the video, Rebecca Cooke turns her back on a man-on-the-street interviewer who asks her if she plans to invite Mamdani—a radical Islamist and Uganda native with limited leadership or job experience—to campaign with her.

Cooke then enters into a crosswalk with a red “no crossing” sign as a vehicle races by and car horns are audible in the background. It is unclear from the video whether they are honking at her.

She also refuses to respond to a follow up question on whether she endorsed the leadership of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the top Democrat in the U.S. House.

Cooke, a perennial also-ran candidate whose family owns an Eau Claire dairy farm, is expected once again to vie for the House seat of incumbent Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisc., in the highly competitive battleground district.

Despite efforts to position herself as a centrist, she previously has been linked to a George Soros-funded progressive dark-money group, Opportunity Wisconsin, the Free Beacon reported.

She also admitted after Mamdani secured the Democrat nomination for mayor that she would support him over more moderate—but still left-wing—alternatives like former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams.

“We are fighting fascism,” she said at the La Crosse County Democrats’s monthly meeting in September to justify her endorsement of Mamdani.

“Um, I’m being myself,” Cooke continued. “I haven’t gone a different way on policies to try to earn or, you know … somebody’s support. I’ve just been being myself.”

Despite her candor, however, not everyone was ready to embrace Cooke’s decision to reveal her authentic self by following lockstep with her party in its great leap leftward.

The National Republican Congressional Committee said it applauded her, on one hand, for speaking her truth, even though it may be political poison to voters.

But it slammed Cooke for her more recent efforts to evade further questioning about the endorsement.

“Rebecca Cooke can’t run away from her endorsement of Socialist Zohran Mamdani and their radical agenda that defunds the police, abolishes private property, and raises taxes on hardworking families,” NRCC spokesman Zach Bannon said in a statement. “Communist Cooke doesn’t represent Wisconsin values, and voters will once again reject her extremism at the ballot.”

Cooke’s sympathies for hardline Islamic radicalism don’t end with her support for Mamdani.

She also has called on the U.S. to end its financial support of Israel while refusing to credit President Donald Trump for his efforts to broker peace in its war against Hamas.

Ben Sellers is a freelance writer and former editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/realbensellers.

Possible Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Suspect Named by Blaze News in Unconfirmed Report

Ken Silva
-
0
Possible Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Suspect Named by Blaze News in Unconfirmed Report

Update: Shortly after the publication of this story, journalist Breanna Morello reported that a source told her the purported suspect named by Blaze Media was not, in fact, involved in the pipe bomb scandal. “This source tells me they know where she was at the time and they do not believe it’s her. The FBI may have another suspect they’re focused on in their investigation,” Morello reported (see here). This article and its headline have been updated accordingly, including by removing the name and description of the person identified by Blaze.

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The person who allegedly planted pipe bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest is possibly a former Capitol Police officer who now works for the CIA, according to an unconfirmed and heavily disputed report from Blaze Media.

Blaze reported Saturday morning that it had a “veteran analyst” run the suspect through gait recognition software, which analyzes how someone walks. The software reportedly found that the suspect’s gait is a “94%-98% match” to that of a former Capitol Police officer. Several “current intelligence sources” reportedly confirmed the findings.

The Capitol Police, the Justice Department and FBI did not respond to Blaze News’s requests for comment. It’s unclear if the publication reached out to the former officer for comment. Blaze editor in chief Christopher Bedford said he was pulled over by local police after stopping to observe the former officer’s home Friday night. He was allowed to leave.

This publication was unable to verify any of the Blaze’s findings, and notes that Blaze has reported fake news in the past—including about the pipe bomb story.

DOJ special attorney Ed Martin said that the DOJ has not identified the former officer as the suspect.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has demanded a statement from FBI Director Kash Patel on the matter.

As Headline USA revealed in March 2024, the FBI had a suspect identified by Jan. 10, 2021 in the pipe bomb case, but never made any arrests.

FBI records released in September revealed that agents didn’t interview the woman who discovered a pipe bomb near the RNC around 12:40 p.m. on Jan. 6 until days later. That woman, former counterterrorism analyst and then-Commerce Department worker Karlin Younger, said she found the bomb while doing laundry.

Meanwhile, former Vice President Kamala Harris continues to be tight-lipped on the subject, despite the fact that her motorcade drove past the DNC pipe bomb on Jan. 6. Harris left the Capitol at 11:21 a.m. arrived to the DNC at 11:25 a.m., but the nearby pipe bomb wasn’t discovered until 1:07 p.m. by a plainclothes Capitol Police officer.

The lack of answers have driven many to suspect that it may have been a false-flag attempt overseen by the feds themselves to divert law enforcement from the Capitol right as the Jan. 6 protest was turning violent.

Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., has said that it may be impossible to successfully prosecute the pipe bomber, even if he or she is ever arrested.

“Here’s what a good criminal defense attorney’s going to say: If you identified the individual who’s believed to place the bomb, then hours go by, and you had a search by the Secret Service at the DNC and the dog didn’t find the explosive—so clearly, the device [the defense attorney’s] client might have left there wasn’t the device that was determined to be the pipe bomb, because it wasn’t picked up by the bomb-sniffing dog,” Griffith argued in March 2024.

History of Disinformation from Blaze Reporter Steve Baker

Blaze reporter Steve Baker was the lead reporter on Saturday’s unconfirmed pipe bomb story. Baker has a long history of reporting dubious and downright false information.

In August 2024, for instance, he reported that the alleged pipe bomber seemingly interacting with Capitol Police while walking around DC the night of Jan. 5, 2021. However, that turned out to be false. The pipe bomb suspect seen walking by the Capitol Hill Club was not the same person as someone who walked towards Capitol Police vehicles minutes later.

In that blunder, one of Baker’s sources was former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin, who is also a source in his story naming the supposed pipe bomb suspect. Seraphin is currently being sued for his own blunder—baselessly accusing FBI Director Kashyap Patel’s girlfriend of being an Israeli intelligence asset. Seraphin’s defense is that he was joking when he said that.

A month before reporting a fake pipe bomb story, Baker reported in July 2024 that a Secret Service counter-sniper shot the would-be assassin at Butler, Pennsylvania, from 448 yards away. In fact, the counter-sniper who shot the would-be assassin was about 150 yards away. Baker never ran a correction on his false report.

Additionally, Baker has claimed to have evidence that the Pentagon authorized “directed energy weapons” to be used during the 2020 leftist riots, and that such weapons may also have been used on Jan. 6, 2021. Baker has yet to provide any evidence of this.

Note: This story has been updated to include Blaze reporter Steve Baker’s history of dubious reporting, as well as the false claims made by one of his sources, former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin. 

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

Comey’s Daughter Supposedly Sought to Cut Deal w/ Epstein to Smear Trump

Editor 1
-
0
Comey’s Daughter Supposedly Sought to Cut Deal w/ Epstein to Smear Trump

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The former cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein claimed that James Comey’s prosecutor daughter offered the billionaire pedophile a deal to implicate President Donald Trump.

Maurene Comey, who recently resigned as the walls closed in on her notorious FBI father, began serving in 2016 as assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

That put her front and center in the investigations of Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell after Epstein was arrested in July 2019.

While detained in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, Epstein was assigned to a cell with Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer who was serving time for kidnapping  and quadruple murder.

Tartaglione was convicted of killing a man he suspected of stealing some $250,000 in drug money, as well as his nephews and a family friend who “were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” prosecutors said, according to the New York Post.

During the month that Epstein was incarcerated before his apparent suicide, Tartaglione claimed in a recent pardon application that his cellmate had the opportunity to save his skin by throwing the sitting president under the bus.

“Prosecutors … told Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Esptein’s crimes he would walk free. in a petition to be pardoned,” according to the Post, which said it had obtained a copy of the filing.

“Epstein told me that Maurene Comey said that he didn’t have to prove anything, as long as President Trump’s people could not disprove it,” the pardon application added. “According to Maurene Comey, the FBI were ‘her people, not his [President Trump’s].’”

Maurene Comey’s father was forced out of his role as FBI director roughly two years prior. However, questions have continued to swirl about the dubious loyalties of officials including then-Attorney General William Barr and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Even so, questions about Tartaglione’s credibility may outweigh the suspicions against the Deep State.

Epstein reported that his cell mate had attempted to attack and kill him during their time together, according to a memorandum from the responding officer.

“He sat up on the bed and began telling me that he [thinks] his bunkine … tried to kill him,” the memo said.

Tartaglione contradicted the report, saying he had, in fact, tried to revive Epstein.

No camera footage was available due to issues with the surveillance system.

Ben Sellers is a freelance writer and former editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/realbensellers.

US Again Flies Heavy Bombers Near Venezuela’s Coast

Headline USA Editor
-
0
US Again Flies Heavy Bombers Near Venezuela’s Coast

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US has once again flown heavy bombers over the Caribbean and near the coast of Venezuela, according to a report from Newsweek, which cited flight tracking data.

Two US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft made the provocative flight, marking the fourth time since October 15 that the US has sent bombers near Venezuela’s coast. The first flight also involved B-52s, and the second and third were conducted by B-1B Lancer bombers.

In each case, the US bombers kept their transponders on when flying near Venezuela, meaning they wanted to be seen. It’s been clear that one aspect of the US military activity in the region has been meant as a psychological operation against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as the Trump administration is hoping he decides to step down or someone in his inner circle turns on him, something that’s unlikely to happen.

The latest bomber flight comes as a US aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, is en route to the region. The Gerald Ford and its strike group will join eight US warships already deployed in the Caribbean.

According to a recent report from The New York Times, President Trump is considering several options for launching attacks on Venezuela, and he isn’t expected to decide until the Gerald Ford is in position. The report also said that the president was worried about failing or putting US troops at risk, and that he hadn’t made a final decision.

The Senate on Thursday voted against a War Powers Resolution that would have prohibited the president from starting a war with Venezuela without congressional authorization.

The US military has continued its bombing campaign against alleged drug-running boats in Latin America, which so far has involved the destruction of 17 vessels and the killing of 66 people. The Trump administration has not provided any evidence to back up its claims about what the boats are carrying and has admitted it doesn’t know the identities of the people it has been extra-judicially executing.

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com. 

 

‘Rabbi Butt Plug’ Sues Alan Dershowitz over Qatari Funding Allegations

Jose Nino
-
0
‘Rabbi Butt Plug’ Sues Alan Dershowitz over Qatari Funding Allegations

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, widely known as “America’s Rabbi”—but more recently dubbed “Rabbi Butt Plug” by Infowars host Alex Jones—has filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz, journalists Batya Ungar Sargon and Elizabeth Berney, as well as two publications, The Algemeiner Journal and The Forward. 

The legal action, filed last Saturday, accuses the defendants of orchestrating a malicious smear campaign that falsely alleged Boteach sought and accepted bribes from Qatar.

The complaint, lodged by Boteach’s attorney Samuel C. Feldman, centers on a series of articles and public statements made by the defendants in 2018 and 2019. These statements, according to the lawsuit, falsely portrayed Boteach as a for sale grifter who betrayed his Jewish community by allegedly seeking financial compensation to meet with Qatari officials and lead a delegation to Doha. 

The allegations were reportedly based on claims made by Dr. Nicolas Muzin, a Canadian-American strategist who was hired by Qatar at $300,000 per month, according to Tablet magazine report, to build “bridges to the Jewish community.” Muzin stated that Boteach had demanded a six-figure fee for the proposed visit and was later rejected by Qatari officials for being not credible and untrustworthy.

Boteach vehemently denies these accusations, asserting that he categorically declined offers to meet with Qatari officials and was an early and vocal opponent of Qatar’s alleged funding of Hamas. In a letter dated Sept.16, 2025, Muzin himself admitted that the claims attributed to him in the articles were completely false, stating that Boteach never requested such a meeting, never asked for any money, and never sought to lead any such trip to Doha.

The lawsuit alleges that the defendants’ statements were made with clear malice and intent to damage Boteach’s reputation, which he claims has caused him significant economic harm and undermined his standing as a global spiritual leader and ambassador for the Jewish community. The complaint seeks at least $10 million in compensatory damages, along with attorney’s fees and other relief.

The case highlights a bitter dispute within the Jewish community over engagement with Qatar, a Gulf state accused of funding Hamas. 

Boteach has been a vocal critic of Jewish leaders who have engaged in dialogue with Qatari officials, particularly those who participated in all expenses paid trips to Doha organized by Muzin. He’s also become prominent in alternative media through his multiple appearances on Jones’s Infowars show, where Jones has jestingly dubbed him as “Rabbi Butt Plug.”

Dershowitz visited Qatar and later described it as the “Israel of the Gulf states, “a characterization Boteach found outrageous given Qatar’s documented financial support for Hamas. In a 2019 article, Dershowitz called Boteach’s accusations lashon hara, or evil words, and claimed that Boteach begged to be invited to travel to Qatar.

The lawsuit also names journalist Batya Ungar Sargon, who Boteach alleges quoted registered Qatar agent Nick Muzin to defame him with fabrications designed to silence his criticism of Qatar’s influence operations.

The case can be found here.

Conservative Plagiarist Benny Johnson Settles Lawsuit for Stealing Content

Ken Silva
-
0
Conservative Plagiarist Benny Johnson Settles Lawsuit for Stealing Content

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Conservative pundit and serial plagiarist Benny Johnson has reached a settlement with the man who sued him for cribbing a video of flooding in Black Mountain, North Carolina from Hurricane Helene last year.

The plaintiff, Virginia resident Billy Bowling, revealed the settlement in an Oct. 27 court filing. The settlement terms weren’t disclosed.

The lawsuit stemmed from Bowling publishing video of Hurricane Helene flooding on Sept. 28, 2024. Two days later, Johnson’s show took the video and published it on his YouTube, Facebook and Rumble channels, according to the lawsuit.

Bowling said he first noticed the infringements on Oct. 7. Later that month, the video was registered by the U.S. Copyrights Office.

In April, Bowling sent a letter to Johnson’s show about the alleged theft. A month later, he sent another letter to “avoid litigation.” However, Johnson still has the videos on his channels.

“[Johnson’s] reproduction of the Video and display of the Video constitutes willful copyright infringement,” Bowling’s lawsuit said.

Johnson didn’t respond to a request for comment. The lawsuit was first reported by Seamus Hughes.

Johnson has a long history of unethical journalism. In July 2014, Johnson was fired from Buzzfeed after that site reportedly found 41 instances of “sentences or phrases copied word for word from other sites” among the 500 stories he had written.

More recently, last year the Justice Department revealed that Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin had all been secretly funded by Russia. All three men claimed that they were unaware of receiving Russian money. Johnson said he had been asked to provide content to a “media startup.” He said his lawyers negotiated a “standard, arms length deal, which was later terminated.”

Johnson has also taken material from this reporter without attribution. Earlier this year, Headline USA broke the story that alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh attempted to buy a rocket launcher from a purported Ukrainian. This reporter was the first to publish court records about the matter, and Johnson took those records and posted them on his Twitter/X account without attribution.

Along with his unethical behavior, Johnson has also made egregious reporting errors. For instance, in a documentary about the July 13, 2024, Trump assassination attempt, he falsely reported that Secret Service counter-snipers returned fire and missed the alleged shooter.

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

Senate Votes Down Resolution To Block Trump From Starting a War With Venezuela

Headline USA Editor
-
0
Senate Votes Down Resolution To Block Trump From Starting a War With Venezuela

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Senate on Thursday rejected a resolution to stop President Trump from launching an attack on Venezuela without authorization from Congress.

The resolution, led by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Adam Schiff (D-CA), failed to pass the chamber by a vote of 49-51, with just two Republicans, Paul and Lisa Murkowski (AK), supporting the bill.

Ahead of the vote, Trump administration officials were telling lawmakers that they currently didn’t have plans to bomb Venezuela, part of a strategy to discourage Republicans from supporting the War Powers Resolution. According to CNN, during the briefings, Trump officials still didn’t rule out potential future military action.

The Trump officials also said they currently lacked a legal justification to launch strikes on land in Venezuela, but a US official told CNN that the administration is seeking one from the Justice Department and doesn’t plan to ask Congress for authorization, a clear violation of the Constitution, which requires congressional approval for the Executive to launch a war.

President Trump has sent mixed messages on the potential for a war with Venezuela, and according to The Wall Street Journal, he has expressed reservations over the idea of launching strikes on the country. But the massive US military buildup in the Caribbean continues as a US aircraft carrier and its strike group are on their way to the region, and the administration has continued its illegal bombing campaign against alleged drug-running boats.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that President Trump is considering potential major escalations that could lead to a full-blown war with Venezuela. They include bombing military targets inside the country, sending special operations forces to kill or capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, or sending a much larger force to capture airfields and oil infrastructure.

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com.

Poll: More Voters Feeling the Impact of Federal Shutdown

Headline USA Editor
-
0
Poll: More Voters Feeling the Impact of Federal Shutdown

(Dan McCaleb, The Center Square) As the federal government shutdown drags into its 37th day, more voters say they are feeling some impact. An equal number of voters also either blame Democrats or Republicans the most for the shutdown, according to polling from Napolitan News Service.

The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen from Nov. 3-4.

According to the data, 44% of voters now report at least feeling some impact from the shutdown that began on Oct. 1. That is up 5 percentage points from 39% last week, and is a new high, Napolitan reports.

The 44% include 16% who report they’ve felt a lot of impact, and 28% who say they’ve felt some impact.

The poll comes as the Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday that it was reducing air traffic by 10% at 40 of the largest U.S. airports. Tens of thousands of flights already have been delayed or cancelled as more air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers who are unpaid miss shifts.

Bryan Bedford, the FAA administrator, said flight controllers have reported “issues of fatigue” during the shutdown.

According to the Napolitan data, 36% of voters place most of the blame for the shutdown on Republicans, and an equal 36% place it mostly on Democrats, while 22% blame both parties equally.

“The number blaming Republicans is down 3 points from last week,” Neapolitan says. “Meanwhile, the number blaming Democrats has gone up 4 points since then.”

RMG Research, Inc. conducted the field work for the survey. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.1%.

WATCH: Trump Says Tariffs May Cost Americans ‘Something’ but Keep U.S. Safe

Headline USA Editor
-
0
WATCH: Trump Says Tariffs May Cost Americans ‘Something’ but Keep U.S. Safe

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump said Thursday Americans should be thankful for his tariffs, which he said he has used to end wars that Americans would otherwise be fighting in.

Trump’s remarks followed Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ characterization of the tariffs as “taxes on Americans” during a high-profile hearing on Wednesday.

For months, the White House has insisted that foreign nations would bear the costs of the tariffs, which are taxes on imports. However, more recent data suggests Americans are paying for at least a portion of the tariffs.

Trump said Thursday that while U.S. consumers may be paying part of the costs, the tariffs are keeping Americans from fighting in foreign wars.

“I think they might be paying something, but when you take the overall impact, Americans are gaining tremendously,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting. “They’re gaining through national security – I’m ending war because of these tariffs, Americans would have to fight in some of these wars.”

Trump has helped broker peace deals between eight groups, most recently Israel and Hamas. The other seven conflicts Trump frequently cites are Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.

Trump also said his tariffs are helping Americans get respect.

“They’re gaining in self-respect for our own country,” Trump said. “Other countries used to laugh at us.”

Exit polls from Tuesday’s elections showed voters were focused on pocketbook issues, including prices at the grocery store. While gas prices have fallen since Trump took office, others have increased significantly, including coffee (up 18.9%) and ground beef (up 12.9%). Those exit polls also track with pre-election polling from The Center Square, which found prices were top of mind for voters. Democrats won most of the key races on Tuesday, frustrating Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Trump also said his tariffs were helping to keep the U.S. financially afloat.

“This is national security. And, by the way, [not] going bankrupt is national security,” the president said. “Our country was really in trouble. The difference between going bankrupt and thriving, that’s also national security. When you go bankrupt, when you don’t have any money, you have no national security.”

That contradicts arguments made by Trump’s Solicitor General, D. John Sauer, before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. During that hearing, Sauer said the tariffs were regulatory in nature and not intended to raise revenue.

The U.S. debt stands at about $38 trillion, according to the U.S. Department of Treasury.

On Wednesday, Supreme Court justices sharply questioned attorneys on both sides of a case challenging Trump’s tariff authority.

Twelve states, five small businesses and two Illinois-based toymakers have challenged Trump’s authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 law without Congressional approval. That law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, doesn’t mention the word “tariff” and has never been used to impose tariffs. Trump’s legal team argues that the law is a clear delegation of emergency power, granting the president broad authority to act in times of crisis.

The Supreme Court is expected to decide the case before the end of June, if not sooner.

Trump has said he wants to use tariffs to restore manufacturing jobs lost to lower-wage countries in decades past, shift the tax burden away from U.S. families and pay down the national debt. Economists, businesses and some public companies have warned that tariffs will raise prices on a wide range of consumer products.

A Congressional Budget Office report from August estimated tariffs could bring in $4 trillion over the next decade. That CBO report came with caveats and noted that tariffs will raise consumer prices and reduce the purchasing power of U.S. families.

1...388389390...3,823Page 389 of 3,823