WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), a senior member of the Senate Committees on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Judiciary, released the following statement about Supreme Court voting down Trump’s global tariffs:

“For the past year, Trump’s tariffs have wreaked havoc on small businesses and driven up costs for consumers, while doing nothing to help the U.S. economy. Trump’s tariffs were never meant to help the American people. They were conceived as another lever for Trump to consolidate power and intimidate our global partners–including some of our closest allies. Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what we’ve known all along, these tariffs are not only reckless, they are illegal. Today’s ruling is an important step forward for American consumers and businesses, and also for the rule of law. Now that the Court has ruled, this regime needs to expeditiously reimburse the businesses who have borne the cost for Trump’s disastrous trade war and lay out a plan to actually address the affordability crisis facing millions of Americans. The President must not seek to reimpose these tariffs using the pretext of some other authority.”

As a member of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Senator Hirono has consistently fought to support the small businesses in Hawaii and throughout the country who have been impacted by the Trump Administration’s global tariffs. For the past year, she has fought for small businesses and families to get relief for the losses they have accrued as a result of the tariffs.

In May, she introduced the Small Business Liberation Act, legislation that would exempt the more than 34 million U.S. small businesses from the global tariffs imposed by President Trump.

In September, she also introduced the Small Business RELIEF Act, which would reimburse those businesses for costs incurred due to the tariffs.

In addition to legislation, Hirono has stood with plaintiffs suing the Administration for losses they’ve accrued because of the tariffs and signed onto multiple amicus briefs advocating for relief.