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Pete Buttigieg: “China actually just had their biggest year of trade surplus…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 41:04

And it's not exactly helping our trade balances. So even on its face, in terms of what it was supposed to do, it has not led to an improvement in manufacture. China actually just had their biggest year of trade surplus ever. Right. It was just not even working. And coming back to the spending side, this is part of why the whole Doge thing kind of breaks my brain, is that we really do need work on government efficiency. (41:04–41:08)

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Asserts that China had its largest trade surplus recently.

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