Gavin Newsom: “The tariffs were illegal from day one.”

“… and how we can start to remove some of those burdens and some of those costs to claw back the cost of the bill as it relates to the tariffs. The tariffs were illegal from day one. We were in Fresno. We were the first state, I was the first governor to announce the lawsuit with Attorney General Bonta on the illegal tariffs under the emergency authority that Donald Trump was asserting.” (13:55–13:57)

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