type: timeline_event New York Governor Kathy Hochul demanded $13.5 billion in tariff refunds from the Trump administration following the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling striking down Trump's emergency tariffs as exceeding statutory authority. The demand was part of a growing wave of refund claims totaling over $175 billion nationally, as businesses and state governments sought recovery of tariffs the Court ruled were illegally collected.
The scale of potential refunds created a fiscal crisis for the administration, which had built its budget projections on tariff revenue that courts determined was unlawfully extracted. The ruling affirmed that the president's emergency powers do not extend to unilateral imposition of sweeping trade barriers without congressional authorization, reinforcing the constitutional separation of powers on matters of taxation and commerce.