WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:

Following today's Supreme Court decision invalidating most of President Trump's tariffs, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent what the Administration's plan is to refund businesses that paid the illegal tariffs.

"Many American businesses, especially small and medium-sized businesses, have struggled to pay these illegal tariffs and, for some, the financial strain has placed them on the brink of bankruptcy," wrote Sen. Cantwell in a letter to Sec. Bessent. "The Administration should have been prep...