{"id":67114,"date":"2026-02-23T22:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/fedex-sues-us-government-seeking-full-refund-over-trump-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:00:02","slug":"fedex-sues-us-government-seeking-full-refund-over-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/fedex-sues-us-government-seeking-full-refund-over-trump-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"FedEx sues US government, seeking \u2018full refund\u2019 over Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firm does not specify amount but seeks reimbursement after supreme court ruled against president last week<\/p>\n<p>FedEx sued the US government on Monday, seeking a refund for the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump that were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/23\/senate-democrats-tariffs-refund-bill\">deemed illegal<\/a> by the US supreme court last week.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit marks the first attempt by a major company to receive reimbursement of their share of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-tariff-revenue-risk-supreme-court-ruling-tops-175-billion-penn-wharton-2026-02-20\/\">estimated $175bn<\/a> in levies after the highest court found Trump had overstepped his authority in issuing the tariffs. Other companies are expected to follow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/23\/fedex-lawsuit-trump-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm does not specify amount but seeks reimbursement after supreme court ruled against president last week FedEx sued the US government on Monday, seeking a refund for the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump that were deemed illegal by the US supreme court last week. The lawsuit marks the first attempt by a major company to &#8230; <a title=\"FedEx sues US government, seeking \u2018full refund\u2019 over Trump tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/fedex-sues-us-government-seeking-full-refund-over-trump-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FedEx sues US government, seeking \u2018full refund\u2019 over Trump tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}