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Mike Johnson: “The tariff policies have actually brought in a lot of new…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 11:38

Do you agree with that? I do. And inflation is cooling. The sky was going to fall, everybody told us, and it hasn't. The tariff policies have actually brought in a lot of new revenue and by some estimates, what, $300 billion. That's how it pencils out for the year. Yeah. And that's a lot of money. And we can use that. Well, and we can use it to get the country out of debt. (11:38–11:45)

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Asserts that tariff policies have generated approximately $300 billion in revenue.

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