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Shelley Moore Capito: “We need to take back the power of the purse and the power of…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Sen. Shelley Moore Capito on affordability, SCOTUS decision and shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 03:04

I think he sees tariffs, and I believe it to be true, as a way to empower the American worker and bring more jobs home. I think what Justice Gorsuch is saying, and he's right on this, We need to take back the power of the purse and the power of the legislating and appropriating as a body, because that's what our constitutional duty is. and so will. These are the pushes and pulls of the balance of power. But we're going to work with the President to try to help him with the tariff, a tariff situation that will bring those American jobs back. (03:04–03:15)

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Asserts that the legislative body needs to reclaim its constitutional duty of controlling the power of the purse and legislating.

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