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Mark Kelly: “He increased tariffs on most countries around the world with…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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LIVE INTERVIEW: Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly speaks about impacts of war with Iran

Published | Video Starts at 05:12

Well, I mean, the president was pretty vocal when he was running for office that he was going to focus on bringing prices down for the American people and keeping us out of foreign conflicts. And for some unknown reason, he's done the opposite. He increased tariffs on most countries around the world with not a good explanation for why he needed to do this. You know, that became a tax or is a tax on the American people. Some of those Tariffs were taken away because of a Supreme Court ruling, but then he put in blanket tariffs, so these are additional costs that families have to pay. (05:12–05:21)

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