Colorado joins multistate lawsuit challenging Trump administration tariffs
By Marissa Ventrelli | Denver Gazette
Colorado has joined a multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration for imposing tariffs on about 90 different countries, Attorney General Phil Weiser and Gov. Jared Polis announced Wednesday.
Weiser and Polis said the tariffs are "destroying our economy, increasing costs on Americans, plunging markets, and putting America on the track to a recession."
The president has argued that the tariffs would reverse decades of what he called unfair treatment in the form of a trade deficit by the rest of the world. His trade policy, he said, would result in factories and jobs moving back to the United States.
The states on the suit included Oregon, Arizona, Illinois, and New York.
"Coloradans are already starting to feel the effects of the T...