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Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies

Published February 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 18:39

Just ensuring, you know, separation of powers, judicial, executive, legislative authority, free and fair elections, all these basic values and tenets that are now more important than ever before. Governors are very much in the forefront of standing up and protecting [democracy]. Yeah. What's the outreach been to the GOP office holders, the folks that are actually governors now, in trying to get them on board. (18:39–18:43)

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“Colorado's largest export is beef and it would hurt Colorado producers of nearly every product across the board.”
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“We've decreased automobile theft by over 20% in the last year.”
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“About 30, 36% of our state is owned by the federal government.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 12:00-12:04
“Tariffs... would destroy American manufacturing.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 01:51-02:44
“Tariffs...would be devastating the American economy, increase inflation, destroy American manufacturing, hurt American farmers and ranchers.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 01:51-12:50
“Tariffs are damaging... they raise the price of every product that's consumer facing by the amount of the tariff.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 02:30-02:39
“Tariffs would just be like us stabbing ourselves and stabbing our own economy.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 03:51-03:56
“Products made in Colorado, products made in Iowa, products made in Texas, they're all American. And so when there's reciprocal tariffs…”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 04:25-04:36
“My goal as governor is to make Colorado one of the ten safest states.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 06:12-06:16
“We're responsible for state law, and obviously civil violations are not criminal violations under state law.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 07:02-07:11
“Our laws reflect by and large the laws we need to make Colorado one of the 10 safest states.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 08:12-08:19
“We fully cooperate with federal authorities on criminal matters.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 08:26-08:31
“We don't want the federal government to co-opt our local law enforcement for their purposes rather than for our purposes.”
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“We have a strong collaborative relationship with all the federal enforcement agencies, whether it's FBI, DHS, ICE.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 09:04-09:11
“We fully cooperate in all criminal matters if they're doing things that aren't criminal.”
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“We were also subject to having people bused to us from Texas.”
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“Permitting reform...we're hopeful President Trump continues in that vein to make it easier to build and get things done.”
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“There's a lot of waste at federal agencies and I applaud any effort to root that out.”
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“I recently repealed 208 old executive orders. We got rid of them off the books.”
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“We have a similar effort to get rid of unnecessary rules and regulations through our legislature.”
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“We literally have employees that just sit there to comply with federal requirements.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 16:17-16:22
“We welcome, by the way, Republican governors to join our efforts to safeguard our democracy.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 18:18-18:23
“There's times when [protecting democracy] takes state level policy, in the absence of federal policy to protect our rights as Americans.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 19:05-19:19
“America is a much more inclusive, supportive place for everybody than it was in prior times in our history.”
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“In our state, you know, our focus has been lowering taxes, reducing regulation, improving our schools.”
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“Our economy is doing great.”
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“Making Colorado safer and making housing more affordable is our other big priority, along with continuing to deliver on free universal…”
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“Tariffs is not just an American thing. It sets off a global trade war to the detriment of everybody.”
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