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Pete Buttigieg: “Donald Trump is imposing a new 10% tax effective at midnight…”

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

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Pete Buttigieg Returns to Fox News

Published | Video Starts at 12:12

We should do health care that's available to everybody, like that proposal I was telling you about earlier. Another thing we can do is just stop making it worse. We woke up to news today that Donald Trump is imposing a new 10% tax effective at midnight last night, that we got to pay on all kinds of goods. Why would you put an extra tax, an extra tariff on things when affordability. I was asking you, how do you make life more affordable for the average American? (12:12–12:20)

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