Tariff Refunds for Consumers, Small Business Sought by Democrats

Feb. 20, 2026, 8:43 PM UTC

Congressional Democrats are pressuring the Trump administration to return billions of dollars in tariff revenue to taxpayers who otherwise lack the legal recourse to capitalize on the Supreme Court’s landmark rebuke of his trade agenda.

Legal and lobbying firms representing large companies are gearing up for years of ligitation to recoup their share of tariffs Trump levied on foreign goods. The high court didn’t mandate money be returned to companies or the consumers who shouldered the burden of paying more for many everyday essentials.

“Donald Trump illegally stole money from the American people,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a ...

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