{"id":188920,"date":"2025-03-04T18:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=188920"},"modified":"2025-03-04T18:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T02:46:20","slug":"governor-newsom-tariffs-are-taxes-on-american-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=188920","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom: \u201cTariffs are taxes on American families\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Governor Gavin Newsom today issued the following statement regarding the Trump Administration\u2019s action to impose tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China: \u201cTariffs are nothing more than a tax on hardworking American families \u2014 driving up the cost of groceries, cars, and essential goods.\u201d  Governor Gavin Newsom<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-187475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg 400w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>California is the fifth-largest economy in the world and is the country&#8217;s largest importer and second-largest exporter. The state relies heavily on trade with Mexico, Canada, and China, particularly for manufactured goods and agricultural products that employ Californians across the state. Over 40% of California imports come from Mexico, Canada, and China. Imports from these countries were $203.3 billion of the total $491.5 billion California imported in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Retaliatory tariffs will impact California businesses and exporters. Mexico, Canada, and China are California\u2019s top 3 export destinations. Tariffs also hurt builders. The tariffs will affect access to important construction materials critical to rebuilding after the Los Angeles fires. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Governor Gavin Newsom today issued the following statement regarding the Trump Administration\u2019s action to impose tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China: \u201cTariffs are nothing more than a tax on hardworking American families \u2014 driving up the cost of groceries, cars, and essential goods.\u201d Governor Gavin Newsom California is the fifth-largest economy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188921,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188920\/revisions\/188921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}