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Peter Welch: “It's a big hammer that is already resulting in uncertainty…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Discussion on Trump's Executive Overreach and Tariff Policies with Senator Booker

Published | Video Starts at 08:28

So if it's specific, if it's thought out and it's just having, making sure we're getting fair treatment from our trading partners, I'm open to that. But that's not what we're seeing out of the Trump administration is this. It's a big hammer that is already resulting in uncertainty. It's going to be higher prices, in my view. It's really going to cost us jobs. Well, we don't, we don't know what we're seeing exactly yet. So I guess we'll know a lot more at 4. (08:28–08:38)

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Asserts that the tariff policy is causing uncertainty, higher prices, and potential job losses.

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