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Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies

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

Why is that? Well, I think it's hard, you know, you know, politics, I mean, for people that are currently elected officials to do that. We'd love, and We welcome, by the way, Republican governors to join our efforts to safeguard our democracy. But I think the fact that we have some former Republican governors does speak a lot to the credibility of this work. (18:18–18:23)

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“Pennies cost about 3 cents to make, really. It would save the federal government over $200 million a year.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 00:46-00:55
“Colorado's largest export is beef and it would hurt Colorado producers of nearly every product across the board.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 03:03-03:13
“We've decreased automobile theft by over 20% in the last year.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 06:37-06:42
“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.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 08:35-08:44
“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.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 09:41-09:47
“We were also subject to having people bused to us from Texas.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 10:28-10:35
“Permitting reform...we're hopeful President Trump continues in that vein to make it easier to build and get things done.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 11:32-11:53
“There's a lot of waste at federal agencies and I applaud any effort to root that out.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 14:51-14:58
“I recently repealed 208 old executive orders. We got rid of them off the books.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 15:52-15:59
“We have a similar effort to get rid of unnecessary rules and regulations through our legislature.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 15:58-16:03
“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
“Governors are very much in the forefront of standing up and protecting [democracy].”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 18:39-18:43
“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.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 21:19-21:26
“In our state, you know, our focus has been lowering taxes, reducing regulation, improving our schools.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 23:35-23:41
“Our economy is doing great.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 23:41-23:44
“Making Colorado safer and making housing more affordable is our other big priority, along with continuing to deliver on free universal…”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 25:05-25:16
“Tariffs is not just an American thing. It sets off a global trade war to the detriment of everybody.”
Governor Jared Polis Discusses Tariffs, Immigration, and Democratic Strategies | Uploaded February 20, 2025 | 27:00-27:09