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Governor, state AG praise court decision blocking Trump tariffs By Joe Taglieri joet@beaconmedianews.com
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Death, sexual violence and human trafficking: Fallout from USAID withdrawal hits world’s most fragile locations By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica
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ollowing a court decision that blocks the Trump administration’s tariffs, Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta hailed the ruling and reiterated their opposition to the president’s trade agenda. A three-judge panel of the Court of International Trade granted a permanent injunction and found that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA does not authorize the tariffs challenged in Oregon v. Trump, a lawsuit by 12 attorneys general initially filed April 23. On April 16, California filed its own lawsuit challenging the tariffs under the IEEPA in the Northern District of California federal court. Tariff opponents claim Trump exceeded his use of emergency powers to implement broad-sweeping levies on imported products that are harmful to state economies, consumers’ personal finances and businesses’ revenue. “Like we said when we filed our lawsuit: These tariffs are illegal, full stop,” Newsom said in a statement. “The court agreed today that Donald Trump overstepped his authority with his unlawful tariffs, which have created chaos and hurt American families and businesses.”
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President Donald Trump unveils a chart April 2 showing “reciprocal tariffs.” | Photo courtesy of the White House
This month, Bonta and Newsom filed an amicus brief supporting the Oregon lawsuit’s case against the trade policy. “The Trump Administration’s illegal tariffs harm businesses, consumers, and states across the nation and it is our responsibility as state leaders to advocate and defend our people against this chaos — this is exactly what California’s
sister states have done with this case,” Bonta said in a statement. “The Court of International Trade has agreed with our sister states and with California and permanently halted the President’s illegal tariffs — IEEPA does not authorize the Trump Administration to impose these tariffs. We See Trump tariffs Page 31
are pleased with the court’s decision in this case and are proud to have supported our sister states’ arguments.” According to the Trump administration, tariffs are necessary to balance trade, boost the waning U.S. manufacturing sector, reduce illegal immigration and human trafficking, reduce the federal
Series: The end of aid: Trump destroyed USAID. What happens now? American diplomats in at least two countries have recently delivered internal reports to Washington that reflect a grim new reality taking hold abroad: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign aid is bringing about the violence and chaos that many had warned would come. The vacuum left after the U.S. abandoned its humanitarian commitments has destabilized some of the most fragile locations in the world and thrown refugee camps further into unrest, according to State Department correspondence and notes obtained by ProPublica. The assessments are not just predictions about the future but detailed accounts of what has already occurred, making them among the first such reports from inside the Trump administration to surface publicly — though experts suspect they will not be the last. The diplomats warned in their correspondence that stopping aid may undermine efforts to combat terrorism. In the southeastern African country of Malawi, U.S. funding cuts to the United Nations’ World Food Programme have “yielded a sharp increase in criminality, sexual violence, and instances of human trafficking” within a large refugee camp, U.S. embassy officials told the State Department in late April. The world’s largest humanitarian food provider, the WFP projects a 40% decrease in funding compared to last year and has been forced to reduce food rations in Malawi’s sprawling Dzaleka refugee camp by a third. To the north, the U.S. embassy in Kenya reported that news of funding cuts to refugee camps’ food programs led to violent demonstrations, according to a previously unreported cable from early May. During one protest, police responded with gunfire and wounded four people. Refugees have also died at food distribution centers, the officials See USAID Page 04
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