Forderungen nach Trump-Rückerstattungen laut: „Wir wollen das Geld zurück“

>Following the Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling Friday that President Donald Trump’s tariffs were unlawful, a growing number of critics are now demanding refunds from the Trump administration for the costs consumers were forced to bear due to the president’s trade policy.

>“Issue an immediate refund to all Americans for your illegal tax,” wrote California Gov. Gavin Newsom Friday in a social media post on X. “Now.”

>Working-class Americans were made to bear the brunt of cost increases associated with Trump’s tariffs, with one recent study finding that around 96% of all tariff-induced cost increases were paid for by ordinary American consumers.

>The study’s findings suggest that the $200 billion in tariff revenue collected by the Trump administration last year was “paid almost exclusively by Americans,” said Julian Hinz, a professor at Bielefeld University and on of the authors of the study.

>And now, in the wake of Trump’s tariffs being ruled unlawful, some are demanding their money back.

>“Trump’s tariffs were an illegal tax on American businesses, farms, and families,” wrote Rick Wilson, an ex-GOP strategist and author, in a social media post on X Friday. “Pay up, Donnie.”