r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/wankbollox 1d ago

If Texas can ignore the federal government and make its own immigration policy, then I guess California can make its own trade policy. Seems fair. 

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u/TinFoilBeanieTech 1d ago

States setting their own trade agreements is totally unconstitutional, but we haven't been following that for a while now anyway. I'm hoping the whole west coast can form it's own trade coalition.

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u/jesuisapprenant 1d ago

Tariff powers don’t belong to the executive branch, the executive branch cannot defund programs unilaterally without Congressional approval, felons cannot run for office, the list goes on. 

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u/Sparticuse 1d ago

Technically, he can under a declared emergency, which is why he declared an emergency under the guise of a fentanyl epidemic, which he then expanded to just let him do whatever he wants. He did the same thing in his first term to get the wall funding they wouldn't write into the budget.

Congress could 100% stop him by ending the emergency and reclaiming their power, or at the very least limiting the scope of his actions to directly dealing with the emergency that he said he's dealing with, but giving their responsibility to the executive was always their goal.