Even Pence Can’t Spin Tariffs as a Win

And I saw Secretary Besant speaking very glowingly about the projection is $300 billion in tariff revenue this year. Well, tariffs are a tax. And American importers and businesses and ultimately consumers pay almost all of that.

And so literally a week after we managed to extend the Trump Pence tax cuts and prevent a $2000 tax increase on working families, the administration is right now boasting of the fact that, uh, that the average American household is going to see about $3000 increase in the cost of American household is going to see about $3000 increase in the cost of goods because we're paying that.