Name: ‘He’s flailing’: Newsom denounces Trump’s tariff policy
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The Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs this week.

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He's already using different authorities to impose a 15% global tariff, vowing to forge ahead even without Congress.

You're going to move your factory from overseas and onshore it with 150 days certainty on a 15% tax or tariff.

It was 10% two days ago, maybe 20% tomorrow.

He's just, you know, he's just trying to hit anything.

I was out there in the Central Valley talking about how this is going to impact ranchers and small businesses and farmers, the ag community, my state larger than any other state in the country.

And Justice Roberts, by the way, basically our arguments were literally laid out in detail in his response.

He needs to refund that money with interest.

They have the tariff codes, they have the ability, they do refunds all the time.

The problem is for families, it's been about $1,701 a year.

That's a different requirement that I think he has to pay the American people back.

He was gleeful that no, we won't be doing it.

Trump and Bessant, they've wrecked this economy.

The worst jobs market we've seen since 2013.

His entire economic paradigm is mass deportations, tax cuts for billionaires and tariffs.

And by the way, the tariff, this is a self dealing operation.

You know exactly what he did in Vietnam with the tariffs.

He used them to get a deal on his golf course to fast track his development.

This is unprecedented grift happening in real time.

That's reflected in what just happened with the tariff decision in the Supreme Court.

It was a profound moment for this administration.

My panel is here now to discuss Congressman Lawler.

You know, at first we thought maybe this was going to be a gift politically to Republicans in Congress.

But now it's going to fall squarely on you because there's going to be some form of a vote.

Number one, it shows that our system of checks and balances works.

The Supreme Court weighed in on this issue, which what I've said for months was ultimately they were going to decide and they were going to make a determination.

Now they made a determination on a very specific subset.

But as Scott Bessem pointed out in your interview, the administration is moving forward on a number of other avenues in which they believe they need to use tariffs.

The fact is, from my vantage point, as I've said from the very beginning, as a means by which to force trade renegotiations, I had no problem with it as a long term mechanism by which to keep in place.

And so the question will be now, how does Congress, which frankly has abdicated its responsibility on tariffs for almost 100 years.

It has been going on for over 100 years where Congress has basically given the executive a lot of authority on tariffs.

Now you have the Supreme Court weighing in and saying, no, Congress has a role.

And so we are going to be working through that process as we move forward.

And I think it's going to be incumbent on the administration to sit down with Congress to determine the best path forward.

The president is already withdrawing his support for colleagues because he defied the president on tariffs.

Does that make you think twice about voting against tariffs?

I'm focused on the substance of the issue and we will work through it.

Rebecca, I mean, Congressman, didn't you vote for tariffs?

I think this is the whole problem is you're making life harder for people in your district.

Like costs are going up and you say Congress should be a check, but you're not.

You haven't checked the president's power.

You haven't let him like moderate at all.

And the only Republicans who ever go at him are people who are either retiring or who have lifetime appointments.

I think this is the problem with the Republican Party today.

He's Making life harder for everyday Americans.

Costs are going up and no one in his party will stand up to him.

Respectfully, I've pushed back on numerous things.

Part of the reason that I was able to deliver salt.

New York State is going to see an average of $4,000 tax cut because I fought back against my own party.

I have pushed back against the president.

I'm the one who just discharged the bill so that we actually got it passed the House.