Mark Pocan: “Donald Trump is doing tariffs, is to make things here.”

“We need to be self reliant on things that we rely on for national security and for public health. And isn't this one of the chief reasons supposedly Donald Trump is doing tariffs, is to make things here. And what you just said, you've laid out a far more articulate way of getting things to be made and creating jobs, good paying family, supporting wages in America than taxing everybody artificially through a tariff.” (28:41–28:45)

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