Tariffs announced, tariffs delayed — tariffs denied? From the Politics Desk

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In today’s edition, our team examines Trump’s tariff agenda on the eve of its deadline to reimpose some of the functions it announced, then delayed in April, as well as a legal case looming on all prices. Meanwhile, Jonathan Allen describes the reflection process that awaits Kamala Harris before the elections in 2028.

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Trump’s prices are faced with another inflection point and a legal test

The most radical tariffs of President Donald Trump, those he initially announced in April, should come into force (still) on Friday. But Thursday, his whole price program faced a severe test before the Federal Court, reports Steve Kopack of NBC News.

The International Trade Court initially blocked prices at the end of May, although they were authorized to stay in place while waiting for the call. The court declared that the law that Trump cited in many of his decrees “did not delegate an unlimited tariff authority to the president”.

He also said that the prices did not respond to the interceding test against an “unusual and extraordinary” risk for the country, after Trump implemented them by claiming a national emergency.

All Trump’s prices on the main business partners, such as Canada, Mexico, China, European Union, Japan, India, Brazil and a handful of other countries, were deployed using the law.

On Thursday, a court of appeal adopted a skeptical vision of the argument of the Trump administration according to which the taxation of prices is indeed in the authority of the president under the international law on economic powers, according to Ryan Balberman of NBC News. Some judges noted that the use by Trump of the law effectively reduces the pricing policy congress, although the law does not mention the prices.

Meanwhile, Trump extended the deadline for negotiations with Mexico before imposing new prices there. He struck India, Brazil and South Korea with new prices while the deadline is looming.

In total, as Rob Wile and Steve Kopack of NBC News write, since the announcement of the April rate rate, Trump nicknamed the “Liberation Day”, the president fell – and since then he has regularly reintroduced high prices at unprecedented levels since the 1930s.

What is the next step? We will know more on Friday. And even more when this court of appeal makes its decision.

What Kamala Harris will weigh before 2028

Jonathan Allen analysis

There are more than 2 million reasons why Kamala Harris does not show up again: this is the margin it lost in 2024.

In addition, no democrat has lost a general election and returned to win the presidency since Grover Cleveland in 1892. The last democrat to win the party’s appointment, to lose the general elections and to return to win the appointment four years later was Adlai Stevenson in 1956.

But what can ultimately be more convincing for Harris are the arguments for the assembly of a third offer for the Oval Oval Office in 2028. By transmitting a race for the Governor of California this week, she said that “for the moment”, her goal is not on the course. This left the door to a future campaign, and there is only one job above that which the former vice-president held most recently.

If Harris hopes to make a return, she will have to count with the most blatant deficiency of the 107 -day campaign that she led in the shade of President Joe Biden: she did not articulate a clear vision of the country which met the needs of unanswered voters. Although she has time to hear the voters, develop an agenda and push her presentation skills, she should devote herself to the execution of these objectives to win a primary and the presidency.

However, Harris would enter a primary race with a set of advantages on most of his rivals. To start, and for the best or for the worst, everyone in his party knows who she is. Most candidates must spend exorbitant quantities of time and money to create name recognition outside their states. This is not a problem for Harris, who received more than 75 million votes in 2024.

Applicants must also spend money on television advertisements and field operations, which can be prohibitive. Harris would start the race with the strongest fundraising record – largely attributable, of course, to the fact that she was the party candidate – and the biggest list of donors. Again, she would start the race further on the track than potential opponents.

In her campaigns in 2024 and 2020, the latter ended in 2019 when she lacked money and support, Harris showed that she had a lot to learn about the creation and communication of a message. In 2028, she would not face the meticulous examination of national media and the exhausting respect for daily campaigns for the first time. Again, it is the edges that she would have on beginners.

A question to which she will have to answer – and this is a question that helped Hillary Clinton run in 2020 – is whether she would still run if she was convinced that she could win the appointment, but it was unlikely to defeat a republican in November.

There is a lot of time for Harris to determine his own appetite for another campaign, the interest of the electorate for her and the pure political calculation of her chances of finding himself in the White House. The Americans may have seen the last of Harris on a ballot.

But while a democrat avenged a defeat in the distant past, a very present politician did it less than a year ago: Donald J. Trump.

Elon Musk gives millions to republican super pacs before the middle

By Ben Kamisar and Bridget Bowman

Billionaire Elon Musk may have left President Donald Trump’s White House, but he may not be done with republican policy.

Musk made a pair of $ 5 million donations on June 27 at the main house of the Super PACs and the Republicans of the Senate. This made musk the largest individual donor of the two groups in the first six months of 2025, according to new campaign financing reports filed on Thursday.

New contributions are additional proof of how Musk can make a big splash in politics by putting its signature on a single check. And they raise the question of how much he could be before mid-term, despite the breakdown of the post-Blanc house of Musk with Trump and his declarations in July on the start of a third party, made after the donations.

Musk donations on June 27 supporting the Senate leadership fund and the Congressal Leadership Fund, the two GOP Super PACs came a month after leaving his official post as Trump advisor and a few days before publicly starting to discuss the idea of starting a new political party.

Meanwhile, other new campaign financing reports show that Musk has pumped $ 45.3 million in its own Super Pac in the first six months of this year. The technological billionaire gave nearly $ 17.9 million directly to the group and sent an additional $ 27.4 million of contributions in kind, with Musk covering funds for a million dollars to voters who have signed petitions.

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