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Mike Crapo: “These deals all force Americans and American businesses to…”

Featuring: Mike Crapo, Republican | U.S. Senate Idaho

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Mike Crapo Blocks Bill To Curb President's Authority To Impose Tariffs Ahead Of Mass-Tariff Deadline

Published | Video Starts at 14:42

And it's not even clear that Vietnam has actually agreed to what the President announced. Second, I want to remind all of us that These deals all force Americans and American businesses to pay a tax rate that is far higher than what we saw before the President engaged in this trade war. I talked earlier about how for both Europe and Japan, Americans will face a tax that's 10 times higher than we paid last year. That same trend holds across every deal he's announced. (14:42–14:56)

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Asserts that current trade deals result in higher tax rates for Americans compared to pre-trade war levels.

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