{"id":2973,"date":"2025-04-18T08:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:12:29","slug":"california-sues-trump-administration-over-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=2973","title":{"rendered":"California sues Trump administration over tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"167\"><strong data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"167\">California Sues Trump Over Tariffs, Citing Economic Harm and Legal Overreach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"169\" data-end=\"514\">California filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging President Trump\u2019s broad tariffs on foreign imports, arguing he exceeded his authority and harmed the state\u2019s economy. The lawsuit claims Trump\u2019s actions violate the Constitution and misuse the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which does not allow imposing tariffs arbitrarily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"516\" data-end=\"842\">The tariffs include a blanket 10% on all imports, higher rates on countries with trade barriers, and a 145% tariff on China. California argues the tariffs are devastating its economy\u2014especially ports and agriculture\u2014costing jobs and threatening recession. Retaliatory tariffs from China and the EU have intensified the impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"1171\">Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta want a federal judge to stop enforcement, stating California, as the top U.S. importer and a major agricultural exporter, bears the brunt. Experts also question the legality, saying Trump\u2019s justification doesn\u2019t meet the \u201cextraordinary threat\u201d standard required under IEEPA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1325\">The lawsuit joins others filed in New York, Florida, and Montana. The White House defends the tariffs as necessary to address national economic threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Sues Trump Over Tariffs, Citing Economic Harm and Legal Overreach California filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging President Trump\u2019s broad tariffs on foreign imports, arguing he exceeded his authority and harmed the state\u2019s economy. The lawsuit claims Trump\u2019s actions violate the Constitution and misuse the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which does not allow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=2973\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;California sues Trump administration over tariffs&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}