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Mike Pence: “During the Trump Pence years, we use tariffs and the threat…”

Featuring: Mike Pence, Conservative | Former Vice President of the United States | National

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Mike Pence: What Conservatives Believe—And Why It Matters

Published | Video Starts at 20:36

Look, the thing I know from Indiana is that trade means jobs. What we make, what we grow, we sell to the world. And During the Trump Pence years, we use tariffs and the threat of tariffs to open markets. But that was different on Liberation Day. This was a new policy, a new industrial policy. My foundation in Washington, D.C. was one of the folks making the case supporting the constitutional challenge to those tariffs in the Supreme Court. (20:36–20:41)

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Asserts that tariffs and the threat of tariffs were used to open markets during the Trump-Pence administration.

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