Governor Newsom calls for immediate tariff refund checks following Supreme Court ruling against Trump
Source: www.gov.ca
News Feb 20, 2026
Governor Newsom calls for immediate tariff refund checks following Supreme Court ruling against Trump
What you need to know: The Supreme Court struck down Trumps illegal tariffs. Governor Newsom is now calling on Trump to refund Americans their money immediately with interest.
SAN FRANCISCO Governor Gavin Newsom today called on the Trump Administration to immediately issue refund checks with interest to American families and businesses after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trumps sweeping tariffs were illegal.
Time to pay the piper, Donald. These tariffs were nothing more than an illegal cash grab that drove up prices and hurt working families, so you could wreck longstanding alliances and extort them. Every dollar unlawfully taken must be refunded immediately with interest. Cough up!
The Courts 6-3 decision confirmed what Governor Newsom argued from the beginning in Californias lawsuit: President Trump lacked the authority to impose sweeping tariffs under emergency powers. The illegal tariffs, a tax, collected more than $130 billion from importers, costs that were passed on to consumers through higher prices on everyday goods. A recent Yale report found that the tariffs led to the average family losing $1,751 dollars last year...................
Read more: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/02/20/governor-newsom-calls-for-immediate-tariff-refund-checks-following-supreme-court-ruling-against-trump/
tsk tsk. trumpy is having a hissyfit!!
Acyn
@acyn.bsky.social
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CNN: Apparently the breakfast had been going well. Then Trump became enraged. He started ranting about the decision, not only calling it a disgrace, but started attacking the courts at one point saying: these fing courts
CNN: Apparently the breakfast had been going well. Then Trump became enraged. He started ranting about the decision, not only calling it a disgrace, but started attacking the courts at one point saying: these fâing courts
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-02-20T16:33:38.963Z
Mysterian
(6,277 posts)Good job Governor Newsom.
popsdenver
(1,995 posts)that most often, the only stuff we hear, comes from a Dem Governor in California, or a select few other Dems in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate....???????????
AND why we literally have hundreds of other Dems in the U.S. House and Senate that we never hear from???????????
Colorado's two Dem U.S. Senators are prime examples..........
Hope22
(4,591 posts)Surely you will hear and see some Dems on this if you look. Try The Last Word with Lawrence ODonnell that is a great place to start.
FakeNoose
(41,010 posts)... and I WANT MY MONEY BACK!
I hope it comes directly out of Chump's bank account ... but ... I guess I know that won't happen.
MichMan
(16,938 posts)Everyone was affected differently depending on what they purchased.
Is that a family of 2 or a family of 6? What about single people?
Will the states refund the excess sales taxes that were charged?
2naSalit
(101,442 posts)I had to buy a bunch of things last year. I want my money back since I got a COLA cut this year, I need the extra cash I shouldn't have had to pay.
Mysterian
(6,277 posts)The government should pay every family $2,000 just for fucking things up.
OAITW r.2.0
(31,864 posts)What a $200BB mess.
FakeNoose
(41,010 posts)It makes me so angry that US manufacturers raised their prices across the board, whether they were subject to the tariffs or not. Because they COULD, and Chump made it possible. Since last year we've been paying 15 or 20% higher prices on just about everything because we've had NO CHOICE.
Chump did this to us, to all Americans, whether we voted for him or not.
popsdenver
(1,995 posts)Price Increases by EVERY Corporation, in EVERY Industry have gone crazy..........it is un-fathomable. Just wait until it suddenly "awakens" everyone, especially the RepubliCONs voters..........
Of course, they exclusively watch Fox News, and are told it is the fault of: Hillary, Biden, Obama, they have even mentioned a few times, that it was a direct result of Carter........
AND it is not just TRUMP, it is the entire Republican CABAL that is guiding things from the 2025 Doctrine, and Heritage crowd.
Even if Trump goes out, the RepubliCON CABALwill still remain, and will certainly put in someone like Stephen Miller, who actually could be much worse........
WASF
Chi67
(1,282 posts)I think we know that money is gone.
Justice matters.
(9,600 posts)Probably...
dalton99a
(93,149 posts)sop
(18,108 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 20, 2026, 02:09 PM - Edit history (1)
By my calculation that's a $750 refund due every adult in the U.S. Where's my check?
flashman13
(2,246 posts)off of your money.
Even IF you could get Congress to pass a bill with a refund mechanism, Trump would refuse to sign it.
Trump will do his best, and probably succeed, to run out the clock on any refund during his administration.
maxsolomon
(38,473 posts)quality chocolate went up 75% almost immediately.
used to be $3 for a lindt bar, now it's $5.
I'll not be getting that back - Kroger will.
FakeNoose
(41,010 posts)usonian
(24,362 posts)
Exp
(861 posts)Justice matters.
(9,600 posts)Search for their hide in Qatar...
LiberalLovinLug
(14,628 posts)Is speculating that this was planned. Or at least a good chance they knew it wouldn't hold. So now THEY get to be ones in power when the prices start coming down.....just in time for the midterms. FOX and friends will spin it as Trump's tariffs worked!!! I know.....dumb....but his cult followers are not rocket scientists.
llmart
(17,484 posts)Companies know that once they raise a price consumers "get used to it".
FoxNewsSucks
(11,619 posts)The only things that might go back down would be if something actually did lose a lot of sales. That might be lowered enough to get sales back up.
But for damn near everything, they now know what people will pay and will keep charging it. Just like oil companies.
MichMan
(16,938 posts)Why does the price of gas go down then ?
https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts
Volaris
(11,591 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,063 posts)Scrivener7
(59,052 posts)LoisB
(12,666 posts)we not see a "check", prices will not come down either (or not sufficiently) for us to recoup the extra we have had to pay.
Srkdqltr
(9,621 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(11,619 posts)who would have "no idea how" to refund customers, so they'll just keep it.
And their shiny new higher prices. This whole thing was probably just another planned grift.
LoisB
(12,666 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,329 posts)We want our money back! The politicians are spinning it that companies paid the tariffs. We paid the tariffs. The money needs to come back to us.
CountAllVotes
(22,154 posts)Don the CON got caught cooking his own books!
I want my refund and you can shove your BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL where the sun don't shine no mo'
MAKE AMERICA BROKE AGAIN!
& recommend!!!
Martin68
(27,404 posts)QueerDuck
(1,339 posts)... as we often see with class-action settlements?