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Peter Welch: “Tariffs against your friends, when it's going to essentially…”

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

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Senator Peter Welch Discusses U.S.-Canada Relations and Economic Concerns Amid Trump's Tariff Policies

Published | Video Starts at 05:21

And it will undercut our trade relationship and the strength of our economy. Targeted tariffs, where you've got dumping by China, I think a lot of us are totally open to that. But Tariffs against your friends, when it's going to essentially be attacks on consumers and it's unraveling relationships that we need in order to be pushing back against China, make no sense. And in fact, the other aspect of this that I think is very dangerous is it plays into the corruption agenda of Trump because you these tariffs are not uniform. (05:21–05:34)

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