And that's the thing that makes me most proud of what the administration has done over the last six months. Now, this is why The President cares so much about tariffs, a word that you weren't allowed to say in polite American economic discourse even 20 years ago. But he recognizes that in a globalized economy, we must be willing to penalize those who would build outside of our own nation and who would use the workers of foreign countries over the workers of their own. (13:39–13:49)
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Asserts that tariffs were not a part of polite American economic discourse 20 years ago.
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