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/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/palmerama 1d ago

Now the plot of Civil War doesn’t seem so far fetched.

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u/Faux-Foe 1d ago

The biggest far fetched idea in there wasn’t the movie, it was which states were aligned with each other.

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u/redditlvlanalysis 1d ago

It's less far fetched than you think Texas is red but there are some deep blue cities and a crap ton of tech that is going to get wrecked by these tariffs