At a House Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) condemned President Trump for threatening to impose 100% tariffs on foreign-made films.
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00:00Questions?
00:04Anyone wants to go first? Cassie?
00:06I'll go first. Two quick questions for you and the Vice Chair, more California-focused.
00:11I'm wondering, first, your reaction to the President's suggestion of this foreign film tariff and what that might look like,
00:19and also your reaction to these reports coming out of the Senate side that Republicans are considering going around the Senate parliamentarian and holding a vote on this vehicle.
00:30California vehicle initiative that came out of the House Republicans.
00:34I'll take that piece first. It would be unprecedented for Senate Republicans to turn away the position of the parliamentarian.
00:45It's very clear, and the GAO report on that spells it out, that this is not subject, waivers are not subject to CRAs.
00:56In our world, these are lots of acronyms here, but in our world, the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that it does not have privilege to come to the Senate.
01:07If Senate Republicans want to blow up that process, they will do so, but it will be at a cost.
01:16And so we would encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle to respect the bipartisan nature,
01:23the nonpartisan nature of the parliamentarians who help guide these operations here.
01:29With respect to foreign film piece, this is just another, you know, I wasn't sure where you were going with this question,
01:36whether this is foreign films or whether this is Alcatraz, right?
01:40This is just nonsensical, like what he sends out late night tweets as a matter of policy or just nonsensical.
01:48There are things that we can do to increase production for the film industry to film in the United States.
01:59We should be looking at those ideas and strategies, not reckless tariffs that will cost people jobs and raise costs for Americans.
02:09That's exactly what, that's consistent with what this president has been proposing time and time again is his public policy solutions.
02:16Great.
02:16Regarding Donald Trump's random tariff imposition now on movies, I just want to say in a California state legislature,
02:25I was a co-author of their film and TV tax credit.
02:30I think that is the way to go because that doesn't actually increase costs on movies.
02:35A tariff on movies, foreign movies, would increase costs on movies.
02:40And no one in Hollywood was asking for 100% tariff.
02:43Donald Trump didn't appear to have talked to anyone about the 100% tariff.
02:46On foreign movies, it just seems like another random idea that he put out there with no thought about how it would actually be implemented.
02:53Because if it was implemented, it would increase consumer costs on movies.
02:57Also, it would just make some movies really far less interesting.
03:00Right.
03:00So if All Quiet on the Western Front had to be, you know, renamed All Quiet on the U.S. side of the Canadian border, much less interesting movie.
03:09So there's just no thought behind what Donald Trump is doing with his indiscriminate tariffs.
03:15It's pretty consistent through line.
03:17So there's just no thought behind what Donald Trump is doing with his indiscriminate tariffs.
03:19So there's just no thought behind what Donald Trump is doing with his indiscriminate tariffs.
03:21So there's just no thought behind what Donald Trump is doing with his indiscriminate tariffs.
03:23So there's just no thought behind what Donald Trump is doing with his indiscriminate tariffs.
03:25So there's just no thought behind what Donald Trump is doing with his indiscriminate tariffs.
03:27So there's just no thought behind what Donald Trump is doing with his indiscriminate tariffs.
03:29So there's just no thought behind what Donald Trump is doing with his indiscriminate tariffs.
03:31So there's just no thought behind what Donald Trump is doing with his indiscriminate tariffs.
03:33So there's just no thought behind what Donald Trump is doing with his indiscriminate tariffs.