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Peter Welch: “[Tariffs] will never do any good when there's a bogus…”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 14:33

These are really hardworking people in Vermont, in New Hampshire, and they just rightly don't understand this. So, yes, it's good that tariffs have been suspended. It's really bad that they were ever threatened to be imposed. They [Tariffs] will never do any good when there's a bogus reason, so called national security. and a real abuse of that authority by the president to invoke that with respect to our closest ally and neighbor and in the trenches with our soldiers in every war we've been in. (14:33–14:40)

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Asserts that tariffs are ineffective when justified by a false national security claim.

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