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Donald Trump stated on February 28, 2017 in a speech to Congress:
"Currently, when we ship products out of America, many other countries make us pay very high tariffs and taxes — but when foreign companies ship their products into America, we charge them nothing or almost nothing."
By Allison Graves• March 2, 2017
Donald Trump stated on March 26, 2016 in an interview with the New York Times:
"There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax."
By Jon Greenberg• March 30, 2016
Donald Trump stated on November 20, 2019 in a tweet:
 "Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America."
By Madlin Mekelburg• November 21, 2019
Facebook posts stated on January 22, 2025 in a Facebook post:
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to replace the IRS with the External Revenue Service, eliminating tax returns and income tax.
By Caleb McCullough• January 27, 2025
Charles Blow stated on May 05, 2025 in a CNN NewsNight episode:
“China makes 80% of all toys” and “90% of all Christmas goods” sold in the U.S.
By Loreben Tuquero• May 9, 2025
Donald Trump stated on August 16, 2015 in a policy plan on immigration.:
"The annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011."
By Linda Qiu• August 18, 2015
Donald Trump stated on October 12, 2018 in a speech:
"All across Ohio, steel mills are reopening."
By Kyra Haas• October 24, 2018
Donald Trump stated on July 29, 2023 in a speech:
Says Gov. Ron DeSantis “opposed my China tariffs and he heartlessly opposed” $28 billion for farm relief, which was paid for by China.
By Samantha Putterman• August 8, 2023
Jeff Sessions stated on April 23, 2017 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
Treasury Department's inspector general found "there's $4 billion a year in excess payments" going to people that shouldn’t get them. "These are mostly Mexicans."  
By Miriam Valverde• April 27, 2017
Peter Navarro stated on August 18, 2019 in an interview:
U.S. tariffs on China are "not hurting anybody" in the United States.  
By Tom Kertscher• August 20, 2019
Joe Biden stated on June 24, 2020 in an ad:
“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”
By Louis Jacobson• June 30, 2020
Donald Trump stated on April 09, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
On enacting country-by-country tariffs April 9.
By Amy Sherman• April 9, 2025
Bloggers stated on February 14, 2017 in a headline:
"Trump just gave every working, legal man, woman and child in the USA $612 each!"
By Joshua Gillin• February 28, 2017
Donald Trump stated on May 09, 2019 in remarks at the White House:
Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us."
By Louis Jacobson• May 14, 2019
Donald Trump stated on May 09, 2018 in remarks at the White House:
Says the 2018 defense authorization bill includes raises for the military "for the first time in 10 years."
By Louis Jacobson• May 10, 2018
Chris Murphy stated on June 26, 2017 in a video:
Says because of Donald Trump, "the IRS decided to stop enforcing the individual mandate that was the underpinning of the ACA. That has resulted in insurance companies all across the country jacking their rates up, explicitly because they don't believe that healthy people will buy insurance."
By Manuela Tobias• July 10, 2017
Sonny Perdue stated on July 26, 2018 in a press release:
"America’s hard-working agricultural producers … have taken a disproportionate hit when it comes to illegal retaliatory tariffs."
By Manuela Tobias• August 9, 2018
Paul Ryan stated on January 25, 2017 in an interview:
In the United States, "we tax our exports and don't tax our imports."
By Tom Kertscher• February 9, 2017
Donald Trump stated on July 12, 2019 in an interview:
U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion "out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China."
By Eric Litke• August 2, 2019
Leah Vukmir stated on January 25, 2018 in an article :
Says Sen. Tammy Baldwin "claims to support a 'Buy America' philosophy, but her actions speak louder than her empty words."
By D.L. Davis• March 12, 2018

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