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BIDEN v. NEBRASKA 

BARRETT, J., concurring 

the HEROES Act.  West Virginia, 597 U. S., at ___ (slip op., 
at 20).  Our decision today does not “trump” the statutory 
text, nor does it make this Court the “arbiter” of “national 
policy.”  Post, at 24–25 (KAGAN, J., dissenting).  Instead, it 
gives Congress’s words their best reading. 

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The  major  questions  doctrine  has  an  important  role  to 
play  when  courts  review  agency  action  of  “vast  ‘economic 
and  political  significance.’ ”  Utility  Air,  573  U. S.,  at  324. 
But the doctrine should not be taken for more than it is— 
the familiar principle that we do not interpret a statute for 
all it is worth when a reasonable person would not read it 
that way.