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I'm joined by Governor Andy Beshear of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Governor, welcome. Oh, thanks for having me. Very excited to be here. Let's start with the news of the day. Donald Trump announcing yesterday he's calling April 2nd the day after April Fool's Liberation Day, where he says he's imposing more tariffs on the country. And he says that's going to make everybody super rich.
Let me show this to you and then let me get your reaction from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Let's play it.
April 2nd is Liberation Day for our country because we're going to finally be taking in money. We're already doing it, a lot of money. As you know, we put down some early tariffs on people and countries that were not treating us well.
Governor, I know the Commonwealth of Kentucky has been hit pretty hard by these tariffs. What do you make of that statement? And is that how the people in the Commonwealth are feeling, liberation?
Well, first, April 2nd is actually the day after my wife and my anniversary because we got married on April Fool's Day. I'm told that means I can forget it once for a couple of hours before I fix it. But in seriousness, this is the Trump tax day or the super inflation day. Tariffs, especially on Canada, lead to increases in the price of gas. How much they lead to that increase is the Trump tax.
You're paying it solely because of the president. Tariffs on places like Mexico increase the price of groceries, which are already too high. The extra amount you pay is the Trump tax. The tariff on lumber, that's out there. It's gonna increase the price of new homes that are already so tough for that couple trying to buy their first home. That increase in price is the Trump tax.
And I don't say that because I'm a Democratic governor and he's a Republican president. I say it because it's solely his fault. Every economist is saying, don't do it. It's slowing down our economy. It could lead us into a recession. You inherited an economy that was growing more than most in the world and you're tanking it. you're wrecking it.
And people in my state are going to pay more than most because our number one export target is Canada. And so whether it's Kentucky bourbon or our aerospace exports, we get hit and we get hit hard.
Also, I think it's one in three people who live in Kentucky are on Medicaid, and that's being hit pretty hard as well. What's going on there with the drastic cuts that Doge and Trump and Musk are doing to Medicaid and just shutting down essential government services?
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