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Donald Trump: “A minimum wage, which is eight or nine dollars, might have…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Full interview Donald Trump details his plans for Day 1 and beyond in the White House

Published | Video Starts at 14:01

So it would be nice to have just a minimum wage for the whole country, but it wouldn't work because you have places where it's very inexpensive to live, where A minimum wage, which is eight or nine dollars, might have very much, very little effect because the cost of living in certain places is really low. Before we move on to immigration, which I do want to talk about, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said he will not leave his even if you ask him to. (14:01–14:22)

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Asserts that a national minimum wage might have little effect in low-cost living areas.

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