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Hassett Briefs Reporters as the Tariff Court Fight Intensifies, May 29, 2025

May 29, 2025 · Roll Call Factbase Videos · 0:07:41

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What happened

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett spoke to reporters outside the White House on May 29, 2025, as the legal challenges to the President’s tariff program moved through the courts, in Roll Call Factbase Videos’ recording. Hassett said the administration was ‘very, very confident’ it would win in the end, called U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer the smartest trade lawyer on earth, and said Greer had chosen the tariff pathway because it works fast and gets trading partners to the table. Pressed on why the administration had not simply reused the first term’s tariff authorities, he answered that the strategy was designed by the best legal minds in the business and that other well-studied options remained on the table if they were ever needed.

Why it matters

The gaggle is the administration’s public legal-confidence case at the height of the tariff court drama: the NEC director, not a lawyer, carrying the message that the trade program would endure whichever way the courts ruled.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the tariff program’s legal position as Hassett stated it on May 29, 2025 — flagged for the scoreboard editors; the entry itself remains review-gated.

Sources: Roll Call Factbase Videos, ‘Press Briefing: Kevin Hassett Speaks to Reporters Outside the White House — May 29, 2025,’ uploaded May 30, 2025 (video jGF_j1Yk1rE); transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, never republished verbatim). Alternate source recorded in the index: Forbes Breaking News (uajOuMnEIaw, transcript opening verified identical).