‘Crushing defeat for the wannabe king’: Democrats celebrate Trump’s tariff loss

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Democrats were quick to take a victory lap Friday after the Supreme Court delivered a stringing rebuke to President Donald Trump’s economic agenda by ruling his administration’s sweeping global tariffs were unconstitutional without approval from Congress.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called it a “big victory for the American people” and “another crushing defeat for the wannabe King.”

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