At Monday’s White House press briefing, Karoline Leavitt spoke about the Trump Administration’s launch of the External Revenue Service.
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00:00Thank you, Caroline. President Trump has recently made statements about eliminating the federal income tax and creating the external revenue service. When could we see that start to play out?
00:11Well, I will tell you this is something the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Treasury are both equally as excited about, as is the president.
00:20And, you know, part of—there's many reasons for the tariffs the president has implemented and the trade deals that he is currently negotiating.
00:28Number one, we need to shore up our critical supply chains here at home. Number two, we need to increase our revenue here in the United States.
00:35We are running trillions of dollars of deficits. Our country will cripple if we continue down this path.
00:40And so how great it would be for the external revenue to completely replace the Internal Revenue Service.
00:47So I know the administration is focused on the External Revenue Service getting that up and running.
00:53And as you know, Customs and Border Protection is charged with bringing in the money from tariffs every day.
00:57And they are bringing in billions and billions of dollars per day with the current tariff rates and where they are at.
01:03So we will continue with that effort. I think I went around the room. Oh, no, one more in the back.
01:08I think it might look at the...
01:17Right next April, your luck.
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01:21Exactly.