Martha McCallum

He's vowing that alternatives will be put in place.

And he wasted no time on this.

He put in a 10 percent global tariff under a different trade act, the Trade Act of 1974.

And those tariffs will expire in five months.

That's a pretty long time unless Congress extends them after that.

And the president had much more to say on this in the briefing room.

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All right.

There you have it.

Lively news conference today from the president.

Some potential 2028 Democrats, of course, they've wasted no time to try to take advantage of this moment.

California Governor Gavin Newsom gloated on X within minutes.

He said this.

Time to pay the piper, Donald.

Your tariffs were nothing more than an illegal cash grab that drove up prices, hurt working families and wrecked longstanding global alliances.

And other Democrats also eager to weigh in.

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You know, Paul Morrow, I want to start with you on the legal side of this.

You know, it strikes me listening to the reaction from Democrats there that, you know, the economy is showing a lot of signs of improvement.

Wages are up.