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Karen Bass: “Are we having tariffs or aren't we having tariffs?”

Featuring: Karen Bass, Democratic | Mayor of Los Angeles | California

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Full Interview: Mayor Karen Bass Makes Her Case for Re-Election

Published | Video Starts at 17:49

The cost of living, the fact that we're in a war that has raised gas prices, you know, extremely high eggs and basic food and grocery stores is high. The instability out of Washington. Are we having tariffs or aren't we having tariffs? And so I think that when society goes through these changes where they just are mad at government and I worry that social media like what he is proposing and then casting himself as a Superman. (17:49–17:52)

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Asserts uncertainty about the presence of tariffs.

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