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Mark Pocan: “We pay for those tariffs because everything will cost a…”

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

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Representative Mark Pocan Town Hall in Madison January 2025

Published | Video Starts at 1:00:42

When you just do tariffs on everything and say China is going to pay them or Japan is going to pay them, that's like Mexico paying for the wall. Right? It didn't, it doesn't work that way. We pay for those tariffs because everything will cost a little more. and then they're going to put tariffs on our goods and that's going to affect us and reduce some of the supply. So there's a lot that you could still see. (1:00:42–1:00:47)

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Asserts that tariffs result in increased costs for consumers.

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