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On the recordNovember 11, 2025
This idea that somehow we can put up walls, we can put up barriers, we could put up tariffs, we put up our middle fingers and just turn our back is lunacy.
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Gavin Newsom
Democratic · California

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Discussing the implications of the US absence from climate negotiations.

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