Maria Cantwell Slams Trump’s Tariffs Agenda: This Have Never Proven ‘Successful’ In US History

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During Friday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) questioned Trump’s CMS Nominee, Dr. Oz, about how President Trump's tariffs agenda will affect Medicare and Medicaid.

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00:00All right. Thank you. Then next is Senator Cantwell. Thank you. Mr. Chairman. I don't know if I can do this in three minutes

00:06But I can tell you this that it's 52 days now of the Trump administration

00:11That was promised to bring lower cost and deal with inflation and we have seen no solutions

00:18Even presented put on the table that would help us understand what this administration is going to do to lower costs

00:26Mr. Faulkner and the Department of Treasury could have come before this committee and told us what they are going to do on more affordable

00:33Housing one of the stickiest parts of inflation and yet we've heard nothing from the administration

00:39On what they're going to do to lower cost

00:41They could have come to this committee and said they supported the PBM efforts to lower drug costs and we still have not heard anything

00:48About their desire to lower drug costs and on the cost of food

00:53We know this they are proposing tariffs that are raising the cost on average

00:59Americans for what we are going to have to pay at the grocery store

01:03the chaotic

01:05Tariffs that this administration is pushing is not the agenda the trade agenda

01:11Approved by this Congress nor is it an agenda that has ever proved?

01:16Successful in the history of the United States and yet that is the preposterous

01:22Preposterous trail that we are now on so mr. Faulkner as part of the first of Trump administration

01:29Where was he when the retaliatory tariffs hit farmers?

01:33He saw markets disappear right under our nose and yet he still believes in this tariff first approach

01:40Mr. Chairman, I hope that our committee will do much more in reining in what is article one

01:46Responsibilities of this Congress to make sure that the issues of tariffs are

01:52Covered and that we have the responsibility to do so so until mr

01:56Faulkner and the Treasury Department recognizes the terrible damage that tariffs are doing. I'm a no on his nomination

Maria Cantwell Slams Trump’s Tariffs Agenda: This Have Never Proven ‘Successful’ In US History

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