Governor Newsom calls for immediate tariff refund checks following Supreme Court ruling against Trump

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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 Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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 Court’s 6-3 decision confirmed what Governor Newsom argued from the beginning in California’s 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/

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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 f’ing 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 f’ing courts

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-02-20T16:33:38.963Z

[Mysterian]

1. Dems need to shout this from every mountaintop

Good job Governor Newsom.

[popsdenver]

15. Why is it

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]

33. I feel sad to hear you say this....

Surely you will hear and see some Dems on this if you look. Try The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell that is a great place to start.

[FakeNoose]

2. Exactly right!! We've been paying high consumer prices for those tariffs for over a year

... 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]

3. The amount should be based on much extra people actually had to pay due to the tariffs

Everyone was affected differently depending on what they purchased.

"A recent Yale report found that the tariffs led to the average family losing $1,751 dollars last year..................."

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]

8. I still have my receipts!

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]

9. No, it shouldn't

The government should pay every family $2,000 just for fucking things up.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Why wasn't Trump's EO stayed by the Supreme Court until they ruled on the legality of these tariffs?

What a $200BB mess.

[FakeNoose]

13. We'll never be compensated for our losses either

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]

16. Couldn't agree more FN

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]

5. Good luck

I think we know that money is gone.

[Justice matters.]

18. It's in Qatar...

Probably...

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[sop]

7. Trump's tariffs collected $200B in 2025.

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By my calculation that's a $750 refund due every adult in the U.S. Where's my check?

[flashman13]

10. Don't hold your breath waiting for your refund check. It will take another major law suit to pry Donny's Tiny Fingers

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]

11. The one that killed me was chocolate.

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]

17. Yes and coffee ....

[usonian]

12. Checking my mailbox!

[Exp]

14. A better start for a weekend than we've been getting lately. nt

[Justice matters.]

19. Ali Baba Pedo and his 40 thieves.

Search for their hide in Qatar...

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. My paranoid mind, that us suspicious of everything these days.........

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]

24. I highly doubt prices will come down because of this ruling.

Companies know that once they raise a price consumers "get used to it".

[FoxNewsSucks]

30. True. Pricing isn't based on cost, but "what the market will bear"

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]

36. "Just like oil companies"

Why does the price of gas go down then ?

https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts

[Volaris]

21. Hahaha HELL yes! THATS how you kick a motherfucker when he's down.

[AllaN01Bear]

22. ding. this.

thats my gov.

[Scrivener7]

23. .

[LoisB]

25. I hate to be a "Debbie Downer" but I would bet half the farm that not only will

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]

26. Of course they won't come down. Prices never really do.

[LoisB]

28. True.

[FoxNewsSucks]

32. The rebate will probaly go to the corporations

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]

35. I agree and would not be at all surprised if it was planned.

[Blue Full Moon]

27. Not taking no for an answer.

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]

29. K&R

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]

31. Good for Gavin. Keeping up the pressure.

[QueerDuck]

34. How could an equitable "split" be determined? Or would it be a per-person/per-household estimate...

... as we often see with class-action settlements?