Is Trump exceeding his authority with these tariffs?
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Obviously you are not seeing the polls of what the American public think of the Democrats in congress.
At their approval rate you can't get a shopping cart at Aldi.
They have failed America PERIOD
At their approval rate you can't get a shopping cart at Aldi.
They have failed America PERIOD
Doesn't matter -- the Pubs are proving themselves so much worse that the Dems will sweep the midterms.
Newsom ramps up economic attacks on White House with tariff lawsuit
Gov. Gavin Newsom cast President Donald Trump’s tariffs as “one of the most self-destructive things that we’ve experienced in modern American history” on Wednesday as he touted California’s lawsuit against several of the levies in the state’s agriculture-heavy Central Valley.
The Democratic governor, sporting blue denim in lieu of slacks at an almond farm south of Sacramento, bemoaned the economic impacts on California’s marquee tech and farming industries and argued the White House has no authority to unilaterally tax imports under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act which it has cited.
“We’re a world away from the values that are emanating out of the White House,” Newsom said. “That’s why we are asserting ourselves. I can’t imagine anything more unifying for a state at this moment than stepping up … on this critical issue.”
Newsom has been relatively muted in his criticism of Trump on issues such as immigration and gender, particularly since he started pleading his case for unconditioned federal aid to help Los Angeles recover from the wildfires there. He has reserved some of his most pointed broadsides for Trump’s tariffs, dubbing them a “betrayal” even before his inauguration. He has also asked international leaders to spare California from retaliation.
“No state is poised to lose more than the state of California,” Newsom said. “That’s why we’re asserting ourselves on behalf of 40 million Americans. And I imagine if you caucused those 40 million Americans, you’d find few — I don’t care where they were in the last election — that are celebrating this uncertainty.”
California is the first state to sue Trump over tariffs during his second term. Leading the challenge is the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, who has become a central leader of California’s resistance to the White House during Trump’s second term as Newsom has at times buddied up to Trump.
Bolstering Bonta’s power is an extra $25 million that the state Legislature and Newsom set aside this year for California to sue the Trump administration. The state is already involved in more than a dozen such legal challenges. Many of them have been alongside other Democratic attorneys general, but Bonta and Newsom decided to forward the tariff challenge alone.
Gov. Gavin Newsom cast President Donald Trump’s tariffs as “one of the most self-destructive things that we’ve experienced in modern American history” on Wednesday as he touted California’s lawsuit against several of the levies in the state’s agriculture-heavy Central Valley.
The Democratic governor, sporting blue denim in lieu of slacks at an almond farm south of Sacramento, bemoaned the economic impacts on California’s marquee tech and farming industries and argued the White House has no authority to unilaterally tax imports under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act which it has cited.
“We’re a world away from the values that are emanating out of the White House,” Newsom said. “That’s why we are asserting ourselves. I can’t imagine anything more unifying for a state at this moment than stepping up … on this critical issue.”
Newsom has been relatively muted in his criticism of Trump on issues such as immigration and gender, particularly since he started pleading his case for unconditioned federal aid to help Los Angeles recover from the wildfires there. He has reserved some of his most pointed broadsides for Trump’s tariffs, dubbing them a “betrayal” even before his inauguration. He has also asked international leaders to spare California from retaliation.
“No state is poised to lose more than the state of California,” Newsom said. “That’s why we’re asserting ourselves on behalf of 40 million Americans. And I imagine if you caucused those 40 million Americans, you’d find few — I don’t care where they were in the last election — that are celebrating this uncertainty.”
California is the first state to sue Trump over tariffs during his second term. Leading the challenge is the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, who has become a central leader of California’s resistance to the White House during Trump’s second term as Newsom has at times buddied up to Trump.
Bolstering Bonta’s power is an extra $25 million that the state Legislature and Newsom set aside this year for California to sue the Trump administration. The state is already involved in more than a dozen such legal challenges. Many of them have been alongside other Democratic attorneys general, but Bonta and Newsom decided to forward the tariff challenge alone.
I'm not sure if you realise you just admitted the non-elected people want the Democrats to stand up to Trump. You further enforcer that by not standing up to Trump, the Democrats have failed....
Have you not noticed that the economy and everything else always goes better when Dems are in charge?
