[JTN] Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive aimed at helping Michigan businesses recover refunds from tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump, while ordering new reports on the policy's economic impacts across the state.
The directive, signed on the one-year anniversary of “Liberation Day,” follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found certain tariffs enacted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act unconstitutional.
“The president’s tariffs have jacked up costs, and Michiganders have been paying the price,” Whitmer said. “Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that these tariffs are illegal, it’s time for Michiganders to get their money back.”
The order directs several state agencies to submit reports within 30 days detailing how tariffs have affected Michigan industries, consumers and state operations, while also ensuring businesses are aware of how to seek refunds as the federal government finalizes that process.
The Dems are cannibalizing each other in the CA Gov race [Just The News] Transparency for thee, but not for me: Rep Swalwell has long insisted that all files related to the Trump White House and financier Jeffrey Epstein be disclosed, on the basis that if Trump had nothing to hide, the files should be released. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, Swalwell fights disclosure of files detailing Chinese infiltration into American politics, which includes his own relationship with a suspected Chinese spy.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, a top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and candidate for California governor, relentlessly pressed to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files — even if innocent people were implicated — going so far as to suggest withholding funding to the Justice Department.
"If the president is not implicated, then why not release everything?" Swalwell asked FBI Director Kash Patel in a tense exchange at a congressional hearing late last year that typified his pressure campaign.
But Swalwell’s tone on unlimited transparency shifted markedly last week when he learned the Trump White House might release a long-secret trove of files showing Chinese infiltrations into American politics and elections dating back more than a decade.
Those files, Swalwell fears, may include an FBI counterintelligence probe into the congressman’s relationship with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset named Christine Fang, also known as "Fang Fang," according to a letter his lawyers sent to Patel. Swalwell has consistently denied any wrongdoing in his dealings with Fang, who reportedly helped Swalwell with fundraising and placing an intern in his office during the 2014 campaign cycle.
Now with his own reputation in the line of fire in a government transparency operation, Swalwell is threatening to sue Patel if the FBI boss complies with a request to send the Fang files to the Trump White House along with other evidence of Chinese election influence operations.
"The Congressman has never been accused of wrongdoing in that matter and your attempt to release the file is a transparent attempt to smear him and undermine his campaign for Governor of California," Swalwell’s attorneys Norm Eisen and Sean Hecker wrote Patel. "Your actions threaten to expose you, others at the FBI, and the FBI itself to significant legal liability."
Swalwell’s office and Eisen did not immediately respond Sunday to a request for comment from Just the News.
But on social media, Swalwell has suggested he’s a victim and any release of the Fang counterintelligence files would sabotage his California gubernatorial campaign. "The reason Trump is so desperately trying to stop me is not because I’m running for Governor of California, but because now I’m the favorite," Swalwell posted on X.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
