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Elizabeth Warren

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

Donald Trump gets to make a deal.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

Donald Trump is the kingmaker.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

He decides who's up and who's down.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

The problem is it's the American people who are paying for this.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

It's America's small businesses that are paying for this.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

And as you rightly said just a few minutes ago, the estimates are somewhere between, last year cost between $1,000 and $2,000 for every American family.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

That's money that the Supreme Court has said was stupid.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

stolen from the American people.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

And that's money that Donald Trump and the Trump administration needs to give back to those people.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

Let's start with the part that has me really worried, and that is Donald Trump just keeps it all and doesn't give money back to anybody.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

Second one is giant corporations come in, and because they have lawyers, they go into court, they say it's illegal for him to keep that money.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

We can show the receipts on what was paid on tariffs, give the money back to us, and then they keep it.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

In neither of those cases do the people who really paid, American families, actually get the money back.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

So, here's the deal.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

Donald Trump's job today should have been both to say, okay, I get it, and he will now follow the law, and we got to work out a way to get this money back into the hands of the people it was taken from.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

That should be the job of his Secretary of the Treasury.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

Instead, Scott Besson, that Treasury Secretary, gets interviewed, and he smirks.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

while he says, oh, I don't think the American people are ever going to see that.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

You know, damn it, this is your job, Scott Besant.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

It is your job to find the way to get that money back into the hands of the American people from whom it has been illegally stolen.