During Tuesday’s White House Press Briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions about Trump's proposed tax policies.
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00:00If we could just step back for a second, when President Trump last addressed the BRT when
00:05he was on the campaign trail, his big push was on tax cuts.
00:09He's going there today as he's proposing tax hikes in the form of tariffs.
00:13Not true.
00:14And I'm curious for why he's prioritizing that over the tax cuts.
00:18He's actually not implementing tax hikes.
00:22Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries that again have been ripping us off.
00:26Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.
00:29And the President is a staunch advocate of tax cuts.
00:32As you know, he campaigned on no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social
00:38Security benefits.
00:39He is committed to all three of those things, and he expects Congress to pass them later
00:44this year.
00:45I'm sorry, have you ever paid a tariff?
00:46Because I have.
00:47They don't get charged on foreign companies, they get charged on the importers.
00:51And ultimately, when we have fair and balanced trade, which the American people have not
00:56seen in decades, as I said at the beginning, revenues will stay here, wages will go up,
01:02and our country will be made wealthy again.
01:04And I think it's insulting that you're trying to test my knowledge of economics and the
01:09decisions that this President has made.
01:11I now regret giving a question to the Associated Press.
01:14Mary, go ahead.
01:15Hi, Caroline.
01:16I have two of them, okay?
01:17The first one was on Russia-Ukraine.
01:19I know Special Envoy Whitcoff said yesterday that Zelensky apologized in his letter to
01:24Trump.
01:25Can you share any more about that letter, and what else might be interesting from it
01:28that we don't know?
01:29Yes, the President did reference that letter, as you're saying, in his joint address to
01:32Congress.
01:34And I do have an...