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J. D. Vance: “Global trade has become fundamentally imbalanced. The…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Press Conference in Agra: Reflections on Pope Francis, US-India Relations, and Global Diplomacy

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It's a little bit too early to prejudge to say what any of these deals is going to look like. I think the fundamental thing that the president has said is, look, Global trade has become fundamentally imbalanced. The American taxpayer and the American nation has become the piggy bank for the entire world. We absorb the world's producer surplus. That's bad for American workers, it's bad for American exporters, and it's something the president ran on stopping. (04:40–04:49)

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Asserts that global trade is imbalanced and detrimental to American taxpayers and the nation.

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