The Daily Signal - Trump Announces ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs, Planned Parenthood Back in Court, and Xavier Becerra Announces Campaign | April 3, 2025

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

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We'd love to talk, business. President Trump announced new tariffs on products from dozens of countries. The justices at the Supreme Court heard arguments for a major case that could determine if South Carolina is allowed to not fund Planned Parenthood. And a former Biden administration official announced his run for governor of, you guessed it, California. I'm Virginia Allen filling in for Tony Kinnett this morning Thursday, April 3rd. This is the Daily Signal's Top News in 10. Donald Trump dubbed April 2nd Liberation Day. Trump stood in the Rose Garden of the White House at 4 p.m. on Wednesday and announced reciprocal tariffs on products coming into the U.S.

from a slew of nations. My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day, waiting for a long time. April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again. I'm going to make it wealthy, good and wealthy. Trump said the tariffs that he announced will be not full reciprocal, but approximately half of what foreign countries levy on American imports. For example, while China puts a 67% tariff on some U.S. products, America will put a 34% tariff on products into the U.S. from China.

Trump boasted of the large number of companies who have moved production to or back to the United States. Companies like Stalantis, General Motors, GE Aerospace, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, and more in only the first two and a half months back in office. The president said the aim of the tariffs is to put America first. The United States can no longer continue with the policy of unilateral economic, surrender. We cannot pay the deficits of Canada, Mexico, and so many other countries. We used to do it. We can't do it anymore. We take care of countries all over the world. We pay for their military. We pay for everything they have to pay. And then when you want to cut back a little bit, they get upset that you're

not taking care of them any longer. But we have to take care of our people. And we're going to take care of our people first. And I'm sorry to say that. Threats of tariffs have already caused some foreign leaders to lift their tariffs on the United States. Israel canceled all tariffs on American products on Tuesday night just a day after Canada trade representatives indicated no retaliatory tariffs would be issued. Mexican President Claudia Shinebaum similarly said no tit-for-tat retaliatory tariffs would be imposed, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford offered to negotiate dropping trade barriers on both sides. The Supreme Court heard a major case on Wednesday about whether South Carolina is allowed to not fund Planned Parenthood.

Here's the background of this case. In 2018, South Carolina governor, Henry McMaster, disqualified Planned Parenthood from receiving taxpayer funding under Medicaid. In response, the abortion giant filed a federal lawsuit and a district court forced the state to restore its funding. Medicaid, by the way, is a health insurance program for the poor that is jointly funded with state and federal taxpayer dollars. In this case, Medina v. Planned Parenthood, South Atlantic. South Carolina is represented by the Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, and South Carolina is asking the court to affirm its ability to direct taxpayer funding away from abortion providers just like Planned Parenthood.

Alliance defending Freedom Attorney Tyson Langhofer was outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday and explained the significance of the case. Take a listen. Well, this case is about whether the taxpayers in this country get to determine whether their tax dollars are going to organizations that perform abortions. For many, many years, the federal government has had a law that says our tax dollars cannot go to perform abortions. South Carolina has enacted a law to say that their Medicaid dollars are not going to be. not going to go to fund abortions. And Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider, has challenged that. And the Supreme Court is set to determine whether the people of South Carolina can determine that they don't want to fund activities that result in the killing of a human life.

You got to love that worship music playing in the background outside of our Supreme Court. Gabriela McIntyre is also an attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom. And our Daily Signal colleague, Mora Gleeson, spoke with her. outside the Supreme Court. And Ms. McIntyre told the Daily Signal, Americans should not be forced to fund activist organizations like Planned Parenthood that perform abortions and provide dangerous gender transition drugs to minors. Former Biden administration health and human services secretary, Javier Bissera, announced on Wednesday that he's running for governor of California in

26 to succeed term limited, Governor Gavin Newsom. Of course, Bacera is a Democrat. Alex Michelson is a news anchor for Fox, LA, and he sat down with Bacera and asked him how he would be different from Newsom. I can tell you what my experiences would do, what I would do with them, and what I would tell you is this, I'm not going to wait. I couldn't, I wasn't given the room to wait on COVID. We had to figure out what the vaccine would be, whether we had to change it to deal with the mutations and so forth, I'm not going to wait. So what I'm going to do, though, is I said, I'm going to bring the best experts into a room and ask them, on this housing crisis, how do we develop more housing?

Okay, we scrub it and then we move. But once the decision is made, you move, and I don't care what special interests you are, we're moving. The Daily Signals, Jacob Adams, reports that during his first four years at HHS, Becerra drew criticism from within the Biden White House for his handling of both. the COVID-19 pandemic response and the monkey pox outbreak. Becerra was also criticized for losing track of thousands of illegal immigrant children, many of them unaccompanied minors.

Bacera previously served as California's Attorney General and before that as a 12-term member of Congress. Former Representative Katie Porter is also running as a Democrat for governor and, also expected to run, potentially, is Kamala Harris. So stay tuned. But while we are speaking of California, the California man who planned to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will plead guilty and federal court. That's according to what his lawyers said in a court filing on Wednesday. Nicholas Roski staked out near Kavanaugh's home with weapons in 2022 before turning himself into authorities. He was set to face trial in June. The attempted

assassination charge carries a sentence of up to life in prison. With that, we're going to leave it there for this morning. Thanks so much for joining us here on the Daily Signal's Top News in 10. For more news, check back this evening for Victor Davis Hanson's political analysis here on the Daily Signal podcast. I'm Virginia Allen, and this has been the Daily Signal's Top News in 10. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button and have a great Thursday.