Learning Resources v. Trump: Limited Relief For Water Infrastructure Costs

If you have been following water infrastructure construction news over the past year, you have certainly been keeping up to date on the tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump and wondering how these tariffs have affected, and will affect, the price of water infrastructure projects throughout the United States. And you may have also been wondering — is all of this legal? On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States responded with a no, at least to a portion of that question in Learning Resources v. Trump¹.

Learning Resources v. Trump was initiated by two family-owned businesses (Plaintiffs) that design and distribute educational products across the United States. Most of these businesses’ production is outsourced overseas, including to China. As part of President Trump’s sweeping executive orders issued shortly after he re-assumed office in early 2025, the President imposed tariffs on imports from foreign counties, including goods from China. Some of the goods