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Pete Buttigieg: “The administration is actively making goods prices higher…”

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

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Pete Responds to Breaking Inflation News, Live on Squawk Box

Published | Video Starts at 00:59

Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail. But the administration is trying to push prices down. Normally, right now we have The administration is actively making goods prices higher with the tariffs, obviously, typical family paid about thousand bucks more for that. They're actively making energy prices higher by killing energy transmission projects as well as generation projects. And they're, of course, actively making energy prices higher with a war that nobody wanted, nobody asked for. (00:59–01:06)

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Asserts that tariffs have increased goods prices, costing typical families about $1,000 more.

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