Greer Dodges $1,700 Tariff Refund Questions as Warren Says Families Paid 95% of Costs
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Updated · The New Republic · Jul 22
Greer Dodges $1,700 Tariff Refund Questions as Warren Says Families Paid 95% of Costs
3 articles · Updated · The New Republic · Jul 22
Summary
$1,700 per family in tariff costs became the focus of a Senate Finance Committee clash after U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer would not say whether consumers would be reimbursed.
Greer said importers that paid the tariffs could seek refunds through U.S. Customs, but he did not outline any plan to return money to households that Senator Elizabeth Warren said absorbed 95% of the costs.
Warren argued the administration was not trying to put “one nickel” back into consumers’ pockets and warned it was pursuing another round of tariffs under a 1930s law.
The dispute follows the Supreme Court’s February ruling that Trump’s 2025 “Liberation Day” tariffs were illegal, a setback that still did not stop the White House from preparing new global levies.