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Governor JB Pritzker sent Donald Trump an invoice on Friday, February 20, demanding nearly $9 billion in tariff refunds for Illinois families after the US Supreme Court ruled the president’s much-touted tariffs are illegal.

Pritzker urged the White House to “cut the check” after justices ruled 6-3 that Trump had exceeded his authority by invoking emergency powers to impose tariffs that reshaped global trade and pushed up prices at home.

“Your tariff taxes wreaked havoc on farmers, enraged our allies and sent grocery prices through the roof,” the veteran Democrat wrote, warning that further legal action could follow if compensation was not forthcoming.

In the letter shared with US media, Pritzker demanded about $1,700 for every Illinois household – the amount Yale University experts said the average US household would pay on tariffs last year.

  • ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    If nothing happens, who will be surprised? Rule of law, even the Supreme Court, is suspended for these dick-weasels… I don’t care. Arrest them or shut up.

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      12 hours ago

      If anything happens at all it will be multi-billion dollar corporations getting checks from the government

      • rayyy@piefed.social
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        4 hours ago

        If anything happens at all it will be multi-billion dollar corporations getting checks from the government

        LOUDER, for the people in the back.