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WELKER: What is the national emergency that justifies this new slate of tariffs?

WELKER: The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency pic.twitter.com/EJjrKMeMiu

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 18, 2026

Twitter is banjaxed again. Rupar has the video in his tweet,, the embed now says “Not found.”  This supposedly works, though, as Bessent went on talking Welker in true Lewis Carroll style:

WELKER: You're saying it's a national emergency but you're also saying it's a threat that's years away. How can both be true?

BESSENT: Because you're avoiding creating the emergency

WELKER: Do you think the Supreme Court will agree with that rationale?

BESSENT: I believe it's… pic.twitter.com/5hmSViTN6r

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 18, 2026

WELKER: You're saying it's a national emergency but you're also saying it's a threat that's years away. How can both be true?

BESSENT: Because you're avoiding creating the emergency

WELKER: Do you think the Supreme Court will agree with that rationale?

BESSENT: I believe it's very unlikely the Supreme Court will overrule a president's signature economic policy

With a touch of droit de seigneur, because they’re scared to death the Supremes are going to take away their ball. (”It’s a potential emergency we must avoid by declaring an emergency prematurely” is not the flex they think it is.)