Policy  analysis

As National Guard deployments quietly packed up and left in Chicago, Portland, and Los Angeles, they left an undoubtedly controversial wake behind them. Many of the residents they were there to protect—alongside Americans around the country—are wondering the same thing: was it worth it?

If you ask the average American what, in their view, the government’s biggest priority should be, you can expect to get a plethora of responses—but it is not likely that tariffs would be frequently mentioned. Yet the outcome of the case over President Donald Trump’s authority to levy tariffs on the grounds of national emergencies, currently in the Supreme Court, will have incredibly far reaching effects for the country—far beyond trade policy.