**You did not approve USDT to the router address before attempting the swap.** The USDT contract uses `assert` instead of `revert` or `throw` to cancel the transaction because of the lack of approval. Using `assert` will consume all the gas left. It's bad practice by Tether to use `assert`, but it's probably because their contract is really old. EDIT: Also, the USDT contract requires you to set the allowance to 0 before making another approve call. Here is the relevant code of the USDT contract: function approve(address _spender, uint _value) public onlyPayloadSize(2 * 32) { // To change the approve amount you first have to reduce the addresses` // allowance to zero by calling `approve(_spender, 0)` if it is not // already 0 to mitigate the race condition described here: // https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/20#issuecomment-263524729 require(!((_value != 0) && (allowed[msg.sender][_spender] != 0))); allowed[msg.sender][_spender] = _value; Approval(msg.sender, _spender, _value); }