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Trump’s tariff refund scramble keeps turning into a bigger own goal
The Trump administration spent March 3 trying to slow and manage the fallout from the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling, but the effort itself became the story: businesses, states, and trade lawyers were pressing for refunds while the White House looked stuck explaining how it would process the money it had unlawfully collected. What was supposed to be a show of economic toughness had already turned into a bureaucratic and legal mess with real fiscal consequences. The day underscored that the administration had lost the legal argument and was now fighting over the logistics of giving the money back.