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Donald Trump: “We have actually $18 trillion being invested in the United…”

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

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President Trump Holds Tax Day Event In Las Vegas, Nevada

Published | Video Starts at 10:11

And we're raising those tariffs very soon. Not on you. It's on people from the outside that don't build their plants here. We have now hundreds of billions. We have actually $18 trillion being invested in the United States because of a lot of reasons, but because of tariffs. Because of tariffs. If they sell their product into our country, they have to pay tariffs. If they make that same product here, they don't so they're coming in. (10:11–10:21)

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Asserts that $18 trillion is being invested in the U.S., partly due to tariffs.

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