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Kathy Hochul: “They're going to be paying back more than $166 billion they…”

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Starting today, the Trump administration will start paying back businesses the money that they illegally took from them under a tariff scheme that the Supreme Court has struck down. They're going to be paying back more than $166 billion they collected in illegal tariffs. I would say this, we've said all along from the beginning the Trump tariffs were illegal, but they had to continue until the Supreme Court said no, they never should have been in place. (27:40–27:47)

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Asserts that over $166 billion will be repaid for illegal tariffs.

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