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Pete Buttigieg: “About $1,000 a household is what [Trump's] tariffs cost the…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete Responds To Trump's Speech, Live on CNN

Published | Video Starts at 01:07

And by the way, it's not only that he has tried and failed to cut prices or cut inflation, that would be bad enough, but it's that he's actually actively increased, reduced our costs. And you can't trick people about that. Look, About $1,000 a household is what [Trump's] tariffs cost the average American household last year. And maybe to him and his billionaire allies, the kinds of people who got most of his tax cuts, maybe that's not a lot of money. (01:07–01:14)

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Asserts that Trump's tariffs cost the average American household about $1,000 last year.

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