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J. D. Vance: “There were a lot of things on the border, on tariffs, for…”

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

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I strongly believe, and I've been a United States senator, that Congress is not just a high class debating society. It's not just a forum for senators and congressmen to whine about problems. It's a forum to govern. So There were a lot of things on the border, on tariffs, for example, where I think that we could have done so much more if the republican Congress and the Democrats in Congress had been a little bit better about how they govern the country. They were so obsessed with impeaching Donald Trump, they couldn't actually govern. And I want to talk about this tariff issue in particular, Margaret, because Tim just accused this of being a national sales tax. (42:45–42:57)

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Asserts that Congress could have done more on border and tariff issues.

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