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Raphael Warnock: “Tariffs, especially the way this is being carried out and…”

Featuring: Raphael Warnock, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Senator Raphael Warnock Discusses America's Spiritual Crisis and New Children's Book on The Late Show

Published | Video Starts at 05:09

It doesn't add up. Well, if you talk to the people in Georgia, it certainly doesn't add up, you know, because they're already seeing the impact of this in their grocery stores. Tariffs, especially the way this is being carried out and tariffs narrowly used, could serve a certain purpose. But this is just indiscriminate. It's across the board, and it changes. From minute to minute. And we, yeah, it's pretty random. We're not sure what the president wants, but it's, it's, it's a sales tax, really, on ordinary people. (05:09–05:19)

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Asserts that the current implementation of tariffs is indiscriminate and not serving a specific purpose.

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