California sues Trump to block latest tariffs, sharing of needy families' data with ICE

This is read by an automated voice.Please report any issues or inconsistencies here.

See more from the L.A.Times in Google Search.

Set us as preferred California filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration Monday — one to block President Trump’s latest round of tariffs on international trading partners, the other to block his administration from sharing needy families’ personal data with immigration officials.California Atty.Gen.

Rob Bonta, whose office brought the lawsuits alongside other Democratically led states, said they were both intended to rein in a lawless president pushing policies that threaten American families already struggling to afford basic necessities.Bonta said the new tariffs are part of a “failed and illegal economic policy” that has previously been blocked in court.He alleged that the proposed data sharing was part of a broader and illegal “mass surveillance effort” by the Trump administration to target its political opponents.The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the two lawsuits.

But it has previously defended both tariffs and data-sharing policies as part of Trump’s “America first” agenda to improve the economic standing of American families.Trump has defended his tariffs, and a previous set that was ruled illegal by the U.S.Supreme Court, as necessary to fix years of unfair trading practices in which international partners took advantage of the U.S.

However, many economists have determined that the cost of the tariffs are being passed on to U.S.consumers and contributing to the persistent inflation causing economic pain nationwide.Trump, the White House and top officials in his administration have also defended the sharing of personal data among U.S.

agencies, and from individual states to the federal government, as a commonsense way to reduce waste and fraud and to identify and remove people who are in the country illegally and consuming benefits intended for Americ...