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Peter Welch: “We're raising tariffs on the theory that it'll result in…”

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 07:53

No, I'd be open to that if it's really specific and concrete and we're assessing what the economic impact of these are going to be. You know what we're doing is well beyond reciprocal tariffs. We're raising tariffs on the theory that it'll result in having these jobs all come to the United States. I wish that were true. I wish it was as easy as that. But we've got these very complicated supply chains where we get the benefit oftentimes of less expensive inputs that go into cars that we might assemble here. (07:53–08:02)

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Asserts that the rationale for raising tariffs is to bring jobs back to the U.S.

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