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Fox News: Dem governors revolt against Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

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Fox News: Dem governors revolt against Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

Today, Fox News outlined how Democratic governors are ‘[uniting] in opposition’ against Donald Trump’s disastrous tariff policies and ‘working to blunt the impact’ of rising costs on working families in their states.

“Fox News said it best: Democratic governors continue to serve as the last line of defense against Donald Trump’s disastrous trade policies and will fight tooth and nail to stand up for the people in their states,” said DGA Communications Director Sam Newton. “While Donald Trump plays games with families’ pocketbooks, Democratic governors will continue to do the work to lower costs for working families and push back on the chaos that Trump is wreaking in Washington.”

Read more on how Democratic governors remain the last line of defense against Donald Trump’s tax hikes on working families below:

Fox News: Dem governors revolt against Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

  • President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs imposed a 10% baseline on all imports — with steeper rates for countries with trade deficits — sparking pushback from Democratic governors trying to shield their states from any fallout.

  • While the Trump administration has maintained that the aggressive new tariffs will ultimately strengthen the U.S. economy and protect American workers, Trump’s new tariff orders have impacted global markets as Democratic governors unite in opposition.

  • Govs. Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, Josh Shapiro, Jared Polis, Tim Walz and Kathy Hochul are among the growing list of Democratic governors speaking out against Trump’s tariffs – and, in some cases, working to blunt the impact on their local economies.

  • “Donald Trump may want to call this ‘Liberation Day,’ but there is nothing liberating for working families who are grappling with the high costs of food, housing, and utilities,” Pritzker said. “Tariffs are a tax. They are a tax on working families, a tax on groceries, and a tax on other everyday necessities.”

  • “The reality is Donald Trump’s economic policies are making things harder for the good people of Pennsylvania,” Shapiro said in an MSNBC interview.

  • Democratic governors continued to pile on the “Liberation Day” criticism on the airwaves over the weekend.

  • Former Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz took aim at Trump’s intelligence in an MSNBC interview, saying Trump “doesn’t fundamentally understand how trade works.”

  • Hochul, who has sparred with the Trump administration on abortion and immigration, said in an interview that Trump’s tariffs “are the largest tax increase in American history” and argued they aren’t “liberating” but “hurting real people in our state and across this country.”

  • “This is one of the biggest tax hikes in American history. It’s not Liberation Day, it’s Recession Day,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis added on Bloomberg this weekend.

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