Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, May 29, 2025

May 29, 2025 · The White House · 0:33:09

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What happened

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed members of the media on May 29, 2025, carried on the White House channel, leading with the U.S. Court of International Trade’s ruling against the President’s tariffs. “Last night, the Trump administration faced another example of judicial overreach,” she said. “Three judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade disagreed and brazenly abused their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump,” as she characterized the ruling, stating that the administration “has already filed an emergency motion for a stay pending appeal and an immediate administrative stay” and that “ultimately the Supreme Court must put an end to this for the sake of our Constitution and our country,” as she stated the administration’s position. She put the 2024 goods trade deficit at over $1 trillion, as she stated the figure.

Turning to legislation, she urged that “Senate Republicans maintain the momentum and quickly pass the One Big Beautiful Bill,” citing the Fraternal Order of Police and the National Border Patrol Council endorsements as she presented them, and attacked the Congressional Budget Office’s deficit estimates, saying its forecasters “use shoddy assumptions and have historically been terrible at forecasting,” citing the CBO’s 1.9 percent growth projection before the 2017 tax cuts against 3.4 percent actual growth by 2019, as she stated the comparison.

Why it matters

This briefing is the administration’s first full public answer to the tariff ruling: the emergency-stay filing, the Supreme Court demand, and the foreign-affairs-powers argument, stated by the Press Secretary on the day after the decision — paired with the Senate push for the signature bill.

Scoreboard watch

This briefing is a scoreboard reference point: the administration’s May 29, 2025 litigation posture on the tariff ruling — emergency stay filed, Supreme Court resolution demanded — as stated by the Press Secretary, to be checked against the appeals record.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, May 29, 2025” (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by the Press Secretary.