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Peter Welch: “The administration [is] saying that they want to raise money…”

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 04:00

You know, another area is on agriculture where all of us, most of the northern states get a lot of their fertilizer, Vermont does from Canada and it's going to be a 25% hit. And you're already hearing The administration [is] saying that they want to raise money to pay to farmers to offset the economic impact of these tariffs. So it really is kind of bizarre to me that you'd pay farmers from the treasury in order to compensate for damage you'd avoid if you didn't stick the tariffs on them. (04:00–07:12)

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Asserts that the administration plans to compensate farmers for tariff impacts.

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