Instead of raising taxes on domestic producers, we're lowering them and raising tariffs on foreign nations to pay for the damage that they caused. In 12 months we have removed over 270,000 bureaucrats from the federal payrolls, the largest single year reduction in government employment since the end of World War II. Nobody thought that was coming, but we had no choice. To make a country great, you can't have all federal jobs. (07:28–07:41)
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