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Peter Welch: “This is an arbitrary decision that is made by the President…”

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 02:22

And there's an element of, Peter, what's going on? National security is the reason you're doing this. Is there a threat from Canada to our national security? We know there isn't. So This is an arbitrary decision that is made by the President, in my view, abusing authority that Congress gave him to use tariffs. If there is, in fact, a national security threat, which all of us, in a common sense way would think it might be something from a military threat, or it … (02:22–02:33)

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Asserts that the President is abusing tariff authority granted by Congress.

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