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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Cervantes</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title>Relative to tariffs. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Tariffs.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>This measure would urge President Donald J. Trump to avoid raising the cost of living for American consumers by rescinding the tariffs that he has imposed since taking office in January 2025 and refunding the American people for the costs passed on to them by his tariffs. The measure would also urge the United States Congress to enact a joint resolution to rescind President Trump’s tariffs and to oppose all future
unilateral and arbitrary tariff increases imposed by President Trump.</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, Article I of Section 8 of the United States Constitution vests in Congress the exclusive authority to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations,” reflecting the founders’ intent to withhold from the executive branch the unilateral power to impose taxes and duties; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, The constitutional power to tax and to regulate foreign commerce is among the most consequential powers of Congress because of its direct effect on prices, wages, investment, diplomacy, and our national economic stability; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, Since the Allied victory in the Second World War, there has been a bipartisan consensus among both major American political parties supporting free trade; and </html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, In his 1958 State of the Union address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared that free trade was “[b]oth in our national interest, and in the interest of world peace”; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan said in a 1988 radio address that “one of the key factors behind our nation’s great prosperity is the open trade policy that allows the American people to freely exchange goods and services with free people around the world”; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, In a 2022 keynote address to the Heritage Foundation, Donald J. Trump declared that Heritage would be building the agenda he would pursue should he be elected as President of the United States in 2024, saying Heritage would “lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do”; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, The Heritage Foundation produced the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, commonly known as Project 2025, calling it a “comprehensive policy guide [that] offers specific proposals for every major federal agency”; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, A section of Project 2025, authored by Peter Navarro, is entitled “The Case for Fair Trade,” which argues for the imposition of severe tariffs on foreign trade; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, After the 2024 presidential election, President-elect Trump announced that he would appoint key authors and contributors from Project 2025 to positions in the federal government, including appointing Peter Navarro as Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, On April 2, 2025, President Trump declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which allowed him to impose a 10-percent base tariff on all foreign goods imported from foreign countries into the United States and imposed even higher tariffs on 57 countries; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, After the announcement of President Trump’s tariffs, stock markets around the world engaged in panic selling, which caused the largest decline in global stock markets since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, In an April 30, 2025, letter to United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, United States Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne Clark wrote that “many small businesses will suffer irreparable harm” due to the tariffs imposed by President Trump, and many small businesses are “seeing their ability to survive endangered by the recent increase in tariff rates”; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, Low-income and middle-class American households have been hit hardest by the price increases caused by President Trump’s tariffs, with the price of essential goods like bananas, coffee, and toilet paper rising; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, While California faces an ongoing housing crisis, the increase in prices caused by President Trump’s tariffs will raise the price of building materials, which will in turn make the cost of a new home rise by about $9,200 according to the National Association of Home Builders based on data from March 2025; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, California farmers exported more than $23 billion worth of food in 2022, with almonds topping the list, followed by dairy products, pistachios, and wine. According to a 2024 study by the University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, if the United States imposed a 10 percent tariff on all goods from all countries and those countries responded similarly, estimated annual export losses would be between $3.1 billion and $4.8 billion for California agribusiness; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, Due to the imposition of tariffs, shipping volume in May 2025 at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach fell by up to 40 percent, imperiling the supply chain of goods from Asia into the United States, a development which President Trump called “a good thing”; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, American consumers paid more than $231 billion in tariff costs between February 2025 and January 2026, an average of approximately $1,751 per household nationwide, with California households projected to lose between $1,900 and $2,000 due to the disproportionate impact of tariffs on the state; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, President Trump’s tariffs have caused global chaos and threaten the strength of the United States’ longstanding relationships with foreign nations and longtime American allies like the United Kingdom, the European Union, Japan, and the Republic of Korea; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, On February 20, 2026, in a 6 to 3 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the United States Supreme Court ruled that President Trump exceeded his constitutional authority by wrongfully claiming emergency powers from the IEEPA to impose sweeping tariffs on nearly every trading partner of the United States, and illegally imposing the largest tax increase on working families and small businesses in our lifetime; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, Despite this rebuke by the Supreme Court, President Trump has invoked alternative statutory authority to continue imposing sweeping tariffs without congressional authorization, thereby prolonging the economic uncertainty plaguing the American and global economies, and further straining the limits of the separation of powers; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, President Trump’s agenda to impose tariffs on imports will harm American working families by increasing the costs of everyday goods, increase inflation and derail the nation’s economic recovery from the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, leave small businesses reeling from unpredictable periods of tariffs being imposed then paused without warning, and dangerously undermine the standing of the United States on the global stage; now, therefore, be it</html:p>
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<html:i>Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of California, jointly,</html:i>
That the Legislature urges President Donald J. Trump to avoid raising the cost of living for American consumers by rescinding the tariffs that he has imposed since taking office in January 2025, and refunding the American people for the costs passed on to them by his tariffs; and be it further
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<html:i>Resolved,</html:i>
That the Legislature urges the United States Congress to enact a joint resolution to rescind President Trump’s tariffs and to oppose all future unilateral and arbitrary tariff increases
imposed by President Trump; and be it further
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<html:i>Resolved,</html:i>
That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the President and the Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, to the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, to the Minority Leader of the United States Senate, to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the United States, and to the author for appropriate distribution.
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