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Mike Johnson: “Europe has to be rebuilt. Everybody does all the trade…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Interview with Speaker Mike Johnson on the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' and Congressional Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 21:00

Like, you know, we were still living in the relic of the World War II era. If you think about it, after World War II, America emerges as a superpower. Europe has to be rebuilt. Everybody does all the trade agreement arrangements and agreements and they said, well, Americans can afford it, we can't. Let's charge them a massive tariff and they won't do it to us. And so there's this huge disparity that was out there and in some, some places over 100% difference between the tariff. The President's 100% correct on that and what he's done to shake it up, while it made people nervous initially, it's going to pay off now. (21:00–21:18)

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