Nationwide Financial Council Director Kevin Hassett stated Friday that the White Home may deploy different measures if the Supreme Court docket guidelines towards President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping levies.
“There was a giant name final evening with all of the principals to speak about if the Supreme Court docket have been to rule towards this IEEPA tariff, what would the subsequent step be?” Hassett stated on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Road,” referring to the administration’s use of the Worldwide Emergency Financial Powers Act.
“There are a variety of different authorized authorities that may reproduce the offers that we have made with different nations, and may achieve this principally instantly. And so our expectation is that we will win, and if we do not win, then we all know that we have different instruments that we may use that get us to the identical place,” he stated.
Hassett stated U.S. Commerce Consultant Jamieson Greer has been carefully concerned in mapping out contingency plans.
The Supreme Court docket’s first choice day of 2026 got here and went Friday with no ruling on the legality of Trump’s tariffs.
Hassett is without doubt one of the finalists for the Federal Reserve chair job as Trump strikes near selecting a successor to Jerome Powell, whose time period as chair is up in Could.
“I am actually pleased with the job I’ve right here,” he stated. “We’ll see what the president thinks about the place I must be.”
Correction: Jamieson Greer is the U.S. commerce consultant. An earlier model misspelled his identify.
