Food's more expensive. Toys are more expensive. Building materials are more expensive. Energy costs are higher. Health care costs are higher. All because of Donald Trump's horrible, horrible economic policies. From tariffs that are essentially the imposition of a national sales tax on American families and small businesses... to a chaotic deportation regime that is shrinking the available workforce that we need, this president has violated the promise that he made to Americans when he ran, telling them he would bring costs down and said costs are up and American families are suffering. (00:25–00:33)
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Asserts that tariffs act as a national sales tax on American families and small businesses.
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