Well, it turns out absolutely not. It's not the case at all, actually. We're generating a decent amount of revenue from tariffs. We just had a surplus last month that came. I think 2015 is the last time that happened. And so people will pay for access to this massive consumer market that we have here in the United States. And President Trump has proven a lot of economists wrong on this point. (20:36–20:42)
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Asserts that the U.S. had a budget surplus recently, the first since 2015.
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