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Gretchen Whitmer: “They very rightly said that the President was way outside of…”

Featuring: Gretchen Whitmer, Democratic | Governor of Michigan

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One-on-one with Governors Whitmer & Beshear

Published | Video Starts at 05:40

Does it bring you any solace to know that the Supreme Court and the justices, even those Trump appointees, came out and said, hey, hold your horses with some of these sweeping tariffs? Well, I think that They very rightly said that the President was way outside of the scope of what his powers are, that he did not have the ability to do that. Yet we see this President going into Congress and saying, I don't need any of you and I'm going to impose new tariffs. And they've changed twice just since then. (05:40–05:49)

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Asserts that the Supreme Court ruled the President exceeded his powers regarding tariffs.

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