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Peter Welch: “Tariffs have always been bad for everyone.”

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

Welch Outlines Cost of Trump Tariffs for Vermont on Senate Floor.

Published February 4, 2025 | Video Starts at 12:06

The cost of raw materials is already very expensive. And she quoted one of her members, Kevin Moyer from Vermont Frame, who said Tariffs have always been bad for everyone. As a business owner who buys a lot of timber from Canada, I'm very worried about the impact of tariffs on my company. (12:06–12:10)

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Asserts that tariffs are universally detrimental.

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“This is going to increase our grocery prices. This is going to mean lumber is more expensive. This is going to mean home heating fuel.”
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“We rely on Canadian gas, probably more than you do, but also home heating fuel.”
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“Totally improper invocation of so-called national security with our biggest ally, Canada.”
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“This is an arbitrary decision that is made by the President, in my view, abusing authority that Congress gave him to use tariffs.”
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“Canada has been in the trenches with us in every war that we've had.”
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“There was nobody in these businesses who said that the cost of this tariff would not be passed on to the consumer.”
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“In the last Trump administration, there was supposedly a tariff, but if you knew the back entrance into the White House and could make a…”
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“There's no guidance about how these tariffs would have been rolled out.”
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“If you got a certain kind of aluminum, it was subject to the tariff, but if you got an ever so slightly different definition of aluminum…”
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“Garrick Herchak at Manufacturing Solutions...said these tariffs create a whole burden to determine what is tariff, the type or shape of…”
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“30 to 40% of what they [Pool and Grain] buy is [from Canada].”
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“These tariffs could cost [Pool and Grain] about $10 million.”
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“There seems to be a point of view in the Trump administration... that he thinks chaos is a good negotiating tool.”
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“These tariffs are going to cost our families... more money.”
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“There will be no more justification in 30 days from now to impose these tariff taxes... than there is today.”
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“It's really bad that [tariffs] were ever threatened to be imposed.”
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“[Tariffs] will never do any good when there's a bogus reason, so called national security.”
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“[There is] a real abuse of that authority by the president to invoke [national security] with respect to our closest ally and neighbor.”
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