I don't know if my colleague from New York has checked his phone, but the stock market is plummeting, plummeting. 401 s of residents in New York, residents in Colorado wiped out. Massive tariffs that the President of the United States applied to our neighbors at midnight that we know will increase the prices of groceries, fuel, energy, you name it. Mass layoffs of federal workers, mass purges of veterans at different federal agencies, mass terminations of Forest service, Forest Service employees in my district working on wildfire mitigation, scientists at noaa, individuals doing cancer research. (11:40–12:02)
CLAIM
Asserts that tariffs imposed by the President will lead to increased prices for various goods and services.
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