And. And is it possible for our state government to negotiate with Canada on tariffs? The bad news is no, the state can't negotiate. Tariff policy is exclusively the province of the federal government. And regrettably, Trump is overreaching here. He has emergency authority that was passed by Congress decades ago that gives the president the ability to do tariffs if there's a, quote, national security emergency that was intended to be about military action. (05:24–05:29)
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