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Beth Van Duyne: “With these tariffs, it's making it very difficult [for…”

Featuring: Beth Van Duyne, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 24

Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities

Published May 12, 2025 | Video Starts at 23:41

We have people moving here from California, from Chicago. We have a lot of growth and we have a lot of need for housing. But With these tariffs, it's making it very difficult [for businesses]. We've got businesses who have invested and now they may have some manufacturing in China and now they're struggling to try to figure out how they're going to bring that … (23:41–23:44)

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Asserts that tariffs are creating difficulties for businesses.

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“We're spending more to service our debt now than we are on our defense.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 06:54-06:59
“Through these policies and through just executive orders alone and the focus that Trump has had on growing the economy, you've seen private…”
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“$1.8 trillion in excess costs from regulations alone over the Biden administration.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 18:40-18:47
“Egg prices now that are down by over 50%.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 02:42-02:53
“Gas prices now that are lower than they were since COVID.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 02:46-02:51
“If we don't [extend TCGA provisions], every single family in America is going to see some of the highest tax increases in our nation's…”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 03:34-03:43
“If we do not get our spending under control, it won't be a congressional vote. It will automatically happen.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 07:08-07:14
“The White House has been very clear that they want to get rid of the waste from [Medicaid].”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 10:04-10:08
“Don't want people who are here illegally on Medicaid who are taking, you know, money away from those who actually need it.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 10:15-10:22
“Districts in New York are going to have a different case and they're more sensitive to the Medicaid salt tax.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 10:54-11:00
“Representatives, we represent constituents that are fed up with it and they need some tax relief.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 11:39-11:45
“Every single Republican voted against the [Inflation Reduction Act].”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 11:51-11:54
“If we don't extend [the TCJA] provisions, we're gonna see the largest tax increase on our American families in our nation's history.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 14:35-14:42
“The TCJA tax cuts expired at the end of this year actually meant that we did not see about $800 billion of investment in our country.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 15:27-15:36
“I've got a bill right now that would make these agencies, one, have to identify the costs of their regulations, which they don't right now.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 18:46-18:55
“I have a lot of experience working with bureaucracy and recognizing the fact that you just gotta cut straight to the point.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 21:15-21:20
“One of the major differences between this administration and last is you recognize how quickly four years goes by.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 21:27-21:34
“I have been very clear...about the importance of cutting regulations, the importance of not having these federal strangleholds on local…”
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“The importance of state rights and the states having the ability to be able to dictate how they move forward.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 21:57-22:04
“A lot of the tariffs that the President has thrown out, he's taken back, he has paused, he's put on pause.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 22:59-23:05
“It's really being used as a negotiating strategy to bring these countries to the table.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 23:05-23:10
“We have people moving here from California, from Chicago. We have a lot of growth and we have a lot of need for housing.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 23:32-23:41
“We change [the rules] so often that it's very difficult [for businesses].”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 24:20-24:22
“We have gotten into this mess because of decades and decades of neglect of letting these countries, especially China, walk all over us.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 25:09-25:18
“A lot of tax policies are going to be important. We're going to try to make it as easy for you as possible on a tax policy.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 25:58-26:05
“We need to get this bill passed sooner rather than later.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 26:13-26:17
“He said he wants to Save a dying Hollywood. I don't know that I agree with that. I'm fine to let Hollywood die.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 26:42-26:49
“I think that you've seen a lot, especially since COVID...parents now recognizing the wokeness and how it was affecting their kids.”
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“The Dallas Fort Worth area had more drug cartels and illegal organizations four years ago.”
Interview with Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne on Trump Administration Strategies and Legislative Priorities | Uploaded May 12, 2025 | 28:53-29:04
“We became one of the fifth safest cities in the country.”
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“You are feeling the results of an administration that is taking our border security safety seriously and is enforcing our laws.”
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