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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt spars with reporter over whether tariffs are ‘taxes’
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3/11/2025
White House press secretary spars with AP over whether tariffs are 'taxes'Source: Reuters
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He expects Congress to pass them later this year.
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I'm sorry, have you ever paid a tariff?
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Because I have.
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When President Trump last addressed the BRT, when he was on the campaign trail, his big
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push was on tax cuts.
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He's going there today as he's proposing tax hikes in the form of tariffs.
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And I'm curious for why he's prioritizing that over the tax cuts.
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He's actually not implementing tax hikes.
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Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries that, again, have been ripping us off.
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Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people, and the president is a staunch advocate of
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tax cuts.
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As you know, he campaigned on no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social
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Security benefits.
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He is committed to all three of those things, and he expects Congress to pass them later
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this year.
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I'm sorry, have you ever paid a tariff?
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Because I have.
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They don't get charged on foreign companies.
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They get charged on the importers.
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And ultimately, when we have fair and balanced trade, which the American people have not
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seen in decades, as I said at the beginning, revenues will stay here, wages will go up,
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and our country will be made wealthy again.
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And I think it's insulting that you're trying to test my knowledge of economics and the
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decisions that this president has made.
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I now regret giving a question to the Associated Press.
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