During Tuesday’s House Democratic leadership press briefing, Rep. Adam Gray (D-CA) was asked if he would vote to repeal President Trump's tariffs.
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00:00Thank you, Andrea. I want to thank Tim, Andrea, and Adam for joining us here today. Questions?
00:09Nick, it's your birthday, so I've got to give you the first one. It's a contractual obligation, I think.
00:14Thanks, sir. A question for Congressman Gray.
00:18He's not available for questions.
00:21Would you vote to repeal all of the tariffs that Trump rolled out last week?
00:26Yeah, I'll let Adam speak for himself here, too.
00:30But I do think that there are legislative tools that the caucus is looking at.
00:36We believe that this is boneheaded, wrongheaded policies that the president is enacting.
00:42We look forward, and we want to work in a bipartisan way.
00:46And I would point to the Cantwell-Grassly effort in the Senate is one bipartisan effort.
00:52I know there are others, and there could be more in the future.
00:56But House Democrats want to work to lower the costs that Americans face.
01:01And these wrongheaded policies and these tariff policies put everyone at risk and raise everyone's costs.
01:07And I'll let Adam answer.
01:11I appreciate the question.
01:13As I said in my earlier remarks, the administration has taken a blunt, broad approach to this instead of actually digging in and looking at each individual tariff, each individual market.
01:29This has huge impacts on agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley.
01:32My office has been working on some legislation related specifically to agriculture and those are kind of our top import-export markets as a way to require congressional review and approval there.
01:45I certainly support what's going on in the Senate in a bipartisan fashion.
01:48I'm ready to support bipartisan solutions in the House as well as pursue individual legislation if that's necessary.
01:57But I just think we've got to get serious about this, and we need serious people here in Washington.
02:00You know, this is going to impact food prices across the country.
02:04It's certainly going to devastate farming communities like mine.
02:07I'd also say ranking member Meeks has an effort that would turn off the emergency that President Trump is using here, claiming fentanyl as a reason for tariffs for Canada and Mexico.