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Mark Pocan: “When a country that only has penguins gets tariffs…”

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

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Interview with Congressman Mark Pocan on Trump's Tariff Policies and Democratic Strategies

Published | Video Starts at 03:20

… on in Wisconsin, like Canada and Mexico, when it comes to agriculture, for example, you're not doing tariffs the right way. You're just throwing them all out there. I mean, When a country that only has penguins gets tariffs, someone's not really thinking through this. And that's the real problem right now. They're used in a way that becomes a tax on all of us, and people are going to see their costs keep going up. (03:20–03:26)

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Asserts that tariffs are being applied indiscriminately, even to countries with no relevant trade.

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