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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. The measure would also urge the United States Congress to enact a joint resolution to rescind President Trump’s tariffs by terminating the national state of emergency declared by President Trump on April 2, 2025, and to oppose all future declarations of states of emergency through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act that would permit future tariff increases by President Trump.</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, There is a near consensus among economists that President Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of goods, and in a report published in May 2025, the nonpartisan Budget Lab at Yale University projects that the tariffs will decrease the average American household’s purchasing power by up to $2,800 per year; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, An analysis published in February 2025 by the Brookings Institution projects that President Trump’s tariffs imposed on imports from Canada and Mexico will increase the inflation rate by 1.3 percent, which would force the Federal Reserve System to maintain its current interest rates; and</html:p>
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<html:p>WHEREAS, Low-income American households will be hit hardest by the price increases caused by President Trump’s tariffs, with the price of essential goods like bananas, coffee, and toilet paper set to rise; 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 for the beginning of May 2025 at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has fallen 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, 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, Japan, and South Korea; 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 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 by terminating the national state of emergency declared by President Trump on April 2, 2025, and to oppose all future declarations of states of emergency through the IEEPA that would permit future tariff increases 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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