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Maria Cantwell: “This has been the centerpiece of the President's economic…”

Featuring: Maria Cantwell, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Washington

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Sen. Cantwell Delivers Speech on the Senate Floor on Appropriations, Tariffs, and Health Care

Published | Video Starts at 08:36

All of a sudden tariff implementation and these policies, prices now going back up. This is when so called Liberation Day tariffs were announced. Americans started getting squeezed. I don't think they are feeling very liberated. This has been the centerpiece of the President's economic policies and it remains in my mind a broken promise on trying to lower cost. Inflation does remain a consistent problem. American businesses know it, American families know it, and they're being squeezed by it. (08:36–08:46)

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Asserts that the President's economic policies have failed to lower costs as promised.

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