Ted Lieu: “Tariffs, in fact, are not paid by foreign countries. They're…”

“We recently saw that the Trump administration is going to lower tariffs on some grocery items. That is finally an acknowledgment that Donald Trump has been lying to American people all along. Terrorists, Tariffs, in fact, are not paid by foreign countries. They're paid by Americans. That's why grocery prices have gone up and that's why they're going to continue to go up, because most tariffs are still on a lot of grocery items and a lot of products.” (03:42–03:47)

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