Congress will do 'what's right' if Trump's tariffs are tossed by Supreme Court, House tax committee chair says

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith said Tuesday helium would "respond accordingly" if President Donald Trump's levies are overturned by the Supreme Court, but stopped abbreviated of pledging to determination them done Congress.

The Republican from Missouri said helium has worked with the Trump medication "hand successful glove" connected tariffs, and helium himself has "talked with much than 20 antithetic countries successful the past 2 months."

"If the courts bash upset the pome cart, past we're going to person to respond accordingly, that's what's due and what's right," helium said connected CNBC's "Squawk Box."

Smith's comments came conscionable hours earlier the Supreme Court granted a petition by the Trump medication to instrumentality up its appeal of little tribunal rulings.

Those rulings recovered that Trump overstepped his authorization erstwhile helium imposed tariffs connected scores of U.S. commercialized partners earlier this year.

The tribunal volition see the entreaty connected an expedited basis. Oral arguments are expected to instrumentality spot successful November.

Last month, 2 little courts ruled that Trump's invocation of the obscure International Emergency Economic Powers Act to warrant imposing tariffs without consulting with Congress exceeded statesmanlike powers.

"Tariffs are a halfway Congressional power," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit wrote successful its 7-4 ruling past month.

But Smith's comments sidestepped the question of whether helium would really expend his governmental superior into trying to walk akin tariffs done the House if the Trump medication ran into trouble.

It's hard to ideate Democrats supporting a tariff measure successful the House oregon the Senate.

But much worrisome than the imaginable of winning implicit Democrats — astatine slightest for Republican enactment — is that a tariff measure successful Congress could disagreement Republicans.

Tariffs are inactive unpopular with astir voters, according to NBC News polling.

This means holding a ballot successful Congress implicit tariffs could unit Republicans to take betwixt their constituents, who don't similar tariffs, and the president, who is precise fashionable with GOP voters.

"There's immoderate precise bully agreements that's been retired there, whether it's with the European Union, the United Kingdom, with Japan, with South Korea, we request to proceed to person much of those agreements," helium said connected CNBC.

"We request markets unfastened due to the fact that 96% ... of the world's consumers are extracurricular of the United States, it's important that we person unfastened markets and that we're each being treated fairly," helium said.