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Mark Pocan: “Vegetables and dairy, they come from Canada. And people were…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 51 with Dean Baker

Published | Video Starts at 21:01

And then we also saw on smaller farmers, you know, the milk bottles that a neighborhood CSA would have, where maybe 100 or 200 families bought from a farmer. Vegetables and dairy, they come from Canada. And people were seeing almost double increases in the cost of bottles. Can you talk a little bit about agriculture in the United States and how it's been affected directly by tariffs? Yeah, so these are both very important points. (21:01–21:08)

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Asserts that tariffs have led to nearly double increases in the cost of bottles for vegetables and dairy from Canada.

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