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flag The Supreme Court is deciding if the president can use a trade deficit as an emergency to impose tariffs, challenging executive power over taxation.

flag The Supreme Court is reviewing whether the president can declare a trade deficit an emergency to impose broad tariffs, a move critics say unconstitutionally expands executive power over taxation. flag Since 1991, Congress has used the emergency label to bypass budget caps and pay-as-you-go rules, authorizing about $12.5 trillion in emergency spending—plus $2.5 trillion in interest—accounting for roughly 10% of budget authority over the past decade. flag The practice, largely self-policed, allows routine or permanent programs to be funded under temporary justifications, as seen in pandemic relief that extended beyond public health needs. flag This erosion of fiscal discipline increases debt, raises taxpayer costs, and weakens the government’s ability to respond to true emergencies, prompting calls to restore the emergency label as a rare, temporary, and reviewable tool.

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