In a 6 to 3 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s attempt to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, IEEPA, lacked constitutional footing because the statute does not clearly authorize tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. However, that does not mean that the presidency has been stripped of all trade policy tools. Justice Brett Kavanaugh rightly points out in his dissent that “numerous other federal statutes authorize the President to impose tariffs and might justify most (if not all) of the tariffs at issue in this case—albeit perhaps with a few additional procedural steps.” But there are several legitimate delegated, and often used, presidential authorities to address trade concerns. For example, Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 addresses issues like unfair practices, forced technology transfer, and intellectual property abuses. Additionally, Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 allows for tariffs pursuant to Commerce Department investigations on national security concerns. To address balance of payments issues (which were the crux of the Liberation Day tariffs), Trump has announced that he will use Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to implement a 10% universal tariff. However, this tariff, if upheld, can only last for 150 days unless Congress reauthorizes it. Now, this is not to advocate for or against any of these tariffs; merely, that these are the options that the public should be aware of. This constitutionally legal toolset, even with IEEPA removed, is still useful to hold bad actors like China to account considering that they spend more than $400 billion in industrial subsidies, operate roughly half a million state-owned enterprises, and steal $600 billion in American intellectual property annually. Worryingly, China has also used its “government guidance funds” to keep almost a third of deeply unprofitable Chinese manufacturers alive from their market manipulation on key sectors like critical minerals. Rather than engage in a pyrrhic subsidy war like the Biden administration, it is more prudent to use properly calibrated tariffs to realign supply chains away from adversaries. However, while tariffs may be strategically necessary, they are still a blunt tool. For example, tariffs can “stack” by adding compounding costs on intermediate goods as they cross borders multiple times. As tariffs can hit this same value chain repeatedly, either foreign companies, import-exporters, domestic companies, or the consumer will end up paying for these taxes in ways that policymakers often do not intend and economists struggle to estimate in real time. Given that the Section 122 tariff, if upheld, will need continual reauthorization and still suffers from the stacking issue, The Heritage Foundation has advocated for a more balanced tool to adjudicate trade issues adroitly and fairly with limited market distortions. In fact, such a tool was remarked upon positively by Peter Navarro, current presidential senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, in his Project 2025 Trade Chapter and by Bob Lighthizer, former U.S. trade representative from 2017-2021 in Chapter 17 of his book “No Trade Is Free.” A congressionally passed Border Adjustment Tax, BAT, which taxes imports (like tariffs) but credits exports could reindustrialize America by addressing a key issue. Consider a grossly simplified example. Sweden applies a value added tax (similar to a sales tax) at the point of consumption, so an imported American Ford F-150 faces the VAT just like a locally sold vehicle. Now compare that to how VAT countries treat their own exporters. When Germany exports a Volkswagen to Sweden, Germany’s VAT is rebated at the border, and Sweden applies its VAT on import. This is called destination-based taxation where consumption is taxed where it occurs and zero rates exports. The United States with its origin-based system does not have a comparable border adjustment built into its tax system. Therefore, a BAT would move us closer to the model most of the world uses as it would tax imports, credit exports, and would do so through Congress rather than through emergency tariff authorization. If Congress is serious about addressing trade deficits and creating a low but broad tax on external consumption, then a BAT is the least damaging way to address these concerns. It can raise revenue in a predictable way that international businesses are more familiar with, and the resulting revenue can be paired with reforms like permanent full and immediate expensing for structures that rebuild industrial capacity, rather than simply punishing imports. If we want a Golden Age of American industry, trade enforcement must be married to domestic competitiveness. That means tax and regulatory reforms that make it easier to build, invest, and scale. As China’s statist model is not going away, the U.S. cannot afford legal ambiguity, whiplash policy, or temporary fixes. Make no mistake; the Supreme Court did not change the principle, simply the set of tools. Now Congress should do its job and build a trade and tax framework that lasts. The post SCOTUS Removes IEEPA Tariffs From Toolbox, Now Is Time for the BAT appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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For the latest edition of the left’s “Everything is Racist” campaign, emergency room physician Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey stopped by ABC’s Saturday edition of Good Morning America for its segment on what the chyron labeled “Black History Month & Your Health.” According to Smalls-Mantey, “the very real fact of racism and bias” in healthcare and America at large is one reason for any racial disparities in the healthcare system. Alluding to disparities in the prevalence of certain diseases, co-host Whit Johnson wondered, “We have been reporting on this more and more recently, but why the continued disparity?” Smalls-Mantey began her reply with possible explanations that have nothing to do with race, “So, some of the reasons for those disparities are you might live in an area that doesn't have as many doctors in their hospital, you might live far away from the hospital, but there's also the economic cost of healthcare.”   In the latest edition of Everything Is Racist, ABC brings on Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey to claim "And then the very real fact of racism and bias in healthcare, and just in this country, we've seen many examples of people having—going to the doctor, having their concerns ignored, and… pic.twitter.com/esNG3uawCB — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 21, 2026   Things then got racial when she added, “Black people tend to be in jobs that may not offer healthcare benefits, or you might not have health insurance. And so if you don't have health insurance, you're less likely to have a primary care doctor that you're following up with, and then even if you do have a regular doctor that you're following up with, the cost of the actual treatment can be very high for people. There's also the anxiety of knowing what you have, so people might have symptoms and not want to see a doctor, but it's important to go find out. It could be nothing, but also, if you have something, there's treatment.” Smalls-Mantey then sought to include "the very real fact of racism and bias in healthcare, and just in this country, we've seen many examples of people having—going to the doctor, having their concerns ignored, and it's important to remember that you're entitled to healthcare. So, go and get a second opinion.” According to a 2022 MITRE-Harris poll, 52 percent of all Americans claimed to have had their concerns “ignored, dismissed, or not believed.” The Kaiser Family Foundation, which endorses the basic belief that Smalls-Mantey espoused, nevertheless also found that 19 percent of black patients and 15 percent of white patients claimed a doctor “ignored a direct request you made or a question you asked.” Similarly, they found 15 percent of blacks claimed a doctor “refused to prescribe pain medication you thought you needed” compared to 9 percent of whites. Those aren’t massive gaps. They certainly aren’t big enough to claim that the country, as a whole, is racist. Here is a transcript for the February 21 show: ABC Good Morning America 2/21/2026 9:13 PM ET WHIT JOHNSON: And we have been reporting on this more and more recently, but why the continued disparity? ADJOA SMALLS-MANTEY: So, some of the reasons for those disparities are you might live in an area that doesn't have as many doctors in their hospital, you might live far away from the hospital, but there's also the economic cost of healthcare. Black people tend to be in jobs that may not offer healthcare benefits or you might not have health insurance. And so if you don't have health insurance, you're less likely to have a primary care doctor that you're following up with, and then even if you do have a regular doctor that you're following up with, the cost of the actual treatment can be very high for people. There's also the anxiety of knowing what you have, so people might have symptoms and not want to see a doctor, but it's important to go find out. It could be nothing, but also, if you have something, there's treatment. And then the very real fact of racism and bias in healthcare, and just in this country, we've seen many examples of people having—going to the doctor, having their concerns ignored, and it's important to remember that you're entitled to healthcare. So, go and get a second opinion.

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Americans reportedly send six billion text messages per day, with 81% of U.S. users relying on the built-in messages app on their phones instead of alternatives like Telegram and WhatsApp. If you’re still sending SMS messages, though, you could be leaving yourself open to unwanted threats and security risks. Here’s how and why you should enable RCS messaging on your phone right now.A brief history of RCSRCS, short for Rich Communication Services, is the new gold standard text messaging platform that has officially replaced SMS and MMS. It was created all the way back in 2008 by the Global System for Mobile Communications Association, a unified organization consisting of popular cell service providers, including AT&T and T-Mobile, among many others.RCS didn’t receive broad appeal, however, until Google purchased a company called Jibe Mobile in 2015, which specialized in RCS technology. Google went on to integrate RCS directly into the Google Messages app on Android by 2020, making it the premiere messaging service on Samsung Galaxy phones, Google Pixel devices, and more.After years of pressure from Google, Apple finally adopted RCS into iPhone in 2023, replacing SMS as the fallback option while maintaining iMessage as its proprietary messaging service.RCS is meant to unify the text messaging experience across iPhone and Android.It’s important to note that SMS and MMS are still supported on most devices today, but they’re not nearly as secure, capable, or reliable.Benefits of RCSRCS is meant to unify the text messaging experience across iPhone and Android. While iPhone users who text other iPhones will still default to iMessage, Android users who text other Android devices or iPhones will send messages through RCS. These new RCS-style messages come with several benefits that will be very familiar to iMessage users on iPhone while making texts better for Android users overall.Encryption: For starters, RCS messages between Android phones are end-to-end encrypted, keeping your conversations safe and private from anyone who might want to take a peek, including your carrier or the government. Apple’s version of RCS is currently unencrypted, but a future software update is expected to enable end-to-end encryption later this year.Read receipts: It’s nice to know when someone actually saw the text you sent, right? RCS supports read receipts that indicate when a text message has been delivered and when it was read, along with a nifty date stamp.Group messaging: Group message threads have long been a point of contention for iPhone and Android users. With RCS, users can now name the group, see who’s typing with typing indicators, and even leave emoji reactions for all to see.Media files: Finally, RCS supports high resolution images and videos, making it easier to share photos and other content in their original quality instead of relying on the grainy, compressed MMS images of the past.An RCS warningWhile RCS is safer, more private, and simply better than SMS, the service’s ability to send hi-res imagery makes it easier for scammers to send spam messages to a broader group of people. In fact, the emergence of RCS is partly responsible for the growing degree of spam texts in the U.S.That shouldn’t deter you from switching to it, though. The benefits of RCS far outweigh its deterrents. It’s also the future of text messaging standards, meaning it will be supported and receive security updates for the long haul, far beyond SMS and MMS.If you receive too many spam text messages while using RCS, check out our anti-spam text guide. This will banish scammers from your messages app for good.How to enable RCS on iPhone and AndroidIt’s fairly easy to enable RCS on both iPhones and Android devices. Before you go looking for these settings, though, note that RCS activation is contingent on your carrier allowing RCS onto its network. Some carriers have been slower than others to enable the service, so if it’s not available on your device yet, it will be in the future. Most carriers are on board, though, so you probably won’t have any trouble.RELATED: Amazon's Ring is running a spy ring from your home. Here's how to turn it off. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesTo enable RCS on iPhone, open the Settings app. Scroll to the bottom and tap “Apps.” Then scroll to the middle of the page and tap into “Messages.” Near the lower half of the screen in the “Text Messaging” section, you’ll find “RCS Messaging.” Tap on that, toggle RCS Messaging on, and you’re done! Screenshots by Zach LaidlawTo enable RCS on Android, you’ll first need the official Google Messages app. At the time this article was published, Google Messages is the only messaging app on Android that fully supports RCS’ full list of features, including end-to-end encryption. Inside Google Messages, tap on your profile picture in the top right corner. Then tap on “Messages settings.” “RCS chats” is right at the top. Dive into that menu, toggle RCS chats on, and you’re ready to go. On this page, you can also customize your RCS experience, by either enabling or disabling some of the features mentioned above. Screenshots by Zach LaidlawEnable RCS nowText messaging technology has come a long way since the days of flip phones, T9 keypads, and other ancient artifacts of the early 2000s. If you’re not using RCS already, you’re basically inviting your carrier to read your texts, your phone is more vulnerable to cellular network attacks, and your phone number could even be stolen and swapped into another device by a criminal. You can prevent all of this and enjoy a better texting experience by enabling RCS today. There’s really no reason not to.

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