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Speaker 1: We're continuing to get headlines updates on everything related to

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Speaker 1: Malaysia will see twenty five percent tariffs on Malaysian products.

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Speaker 1: South Africa thirty percent tariffs on their products. This comes

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Speaker 1: after earlier this afternoon we heard from the President who

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Speaker 1: said that the US will impose the twenty five percent

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Speaker 1: tariff on South Korean goods effective August. First, I want

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Speaker 1: to bring in Representative Kathy Caster. She's a Democrat who

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Speaker 1: represents the fourteenth District of Florida. It includes Tampa and

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Speaker 1: parts of Hillsboro County. Representative, it's good to have you

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Speaker 1: with us. Thanks so much for joining us. While we

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Speaker 1: had you on, we had you booked to talk about

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Speaker 1: what Democrats have is their path forward after the passage

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Speaker 1: of what President Trump refers to as the one big

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Speaker 1: beauty bill. We'll get to that in a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: But because of your work with commerce, and because of

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Speaker 1: your work on manufacturing, we got to start with tariffs.

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Speaker 1: And what we're hearing from the White House right now

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Speaker 1: are tariff's the right way in your view to bring

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Speaker 2: Tariffs can play a very important role when they're targeted

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Speaker 2: and strategic. The problem is that the president is all

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Speaker 2: over the map. This is chaotic. Businesses do not know

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Speaker 2: how to grapple with them and respond. And these recent

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Speaker 2: tariffs announced today against our allies Japan and South Korea

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Speaker 3: You know, we were.

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Speaker 2: Trying to build a wall to counter China and everything

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Speaker 2: all of their malign activities when it comes to trade.

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Speaker 3: So I really this is a head scratcher.

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Speaker 2: Why you build up these tensions with our best trading

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Speaker 3: Why are they facing higher.

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Speaker 2: Costs at a time when now with the big ugly bill,

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Speaker 2: you're adding almost four trillion dollars to the national debt.

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Speaker 3: That's also sure to fuel inflation.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the bill in just a minute. One

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Speaker 1: more on tariffs, though, I want to also say the

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Speaker 1: S and PF i've been down about one point one percent.

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Speaker 1: It did fall a little more than that just after

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Speaker 1: we heard from the President via truth Social and the

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Speaker 1: announcement of those additional tariffs or those tariffs, the clarification

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Speaker 1: of those tariffs on those countries that I just mentioned.

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Speaker 1: You did say that if tariffs are targeted, they can

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Speaker 1: play a role in bringing manufacturing back to the United States.

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Speaker 1: Of the tariffs that the President has implemented or that

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Speaker 1: are implemented right now, which ones do you agree with?

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Speaker 1: Which ones are the right way to bring manufacturing back

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Speaker 3: I can't really point to some.

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Speaker 2: I mean, a few years ago, we had targeted solar

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Speaker 2: was one strategic way to at a time when we're

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Speaker 2: trying to reshore all of the clean energy elements to

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Speaker 3: To own in America.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you know, a targeted effort like that

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Speaker 2: could be very smart as part of a broad based strategy.

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Speaker 2: And I just don't see a broad based strategic strategy

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Speaker 2: right now when it comes to manufacturing. As a matter

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Speaker 2: of fact, the Big A Bill just throws a branch

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Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about that bill, Trump's big beautiful Bill

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Speaker 4: that you have publicly called the Big Ugly Bill. You've

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Speaker 4: also said that it's fiscally irresponsible and morally wrong and

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Speaker 4: an abdominal transfer of wealth from the working class to

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Speaker 4: the wealthy. What specific provisions in the bill that has

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Speaker 2: Well, never before have we adopted a piece of legislation

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Speaker 2: that gives tex cuts to the wealthiest Americans while at

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Speaker 2: the same time you are cutting healthcare for seventeen million Americans,

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Speaker 2: You're cutting pelgrants and student loans. So this is completely

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Speaker 1: You know, the bill, though at this point, has become law.

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Speaker 1: So it's essentially what we're talking about is water under

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Speaker 2: It will be very important for American businesses and families

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Speaker 3: The one one piece of.

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Speaker 2: It that has not gotten a lot of attention are

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Speaker 2: the energy provisions. You remember, the President ran on a

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Speaker 2: of the analysis now say that when you yank back

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Speaker 2: all of the clean energy tax credits, it's a recipe

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Speaker 3: They're throwing a.

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Speaker 2: Wrench in this manufacturing boom that we had underway due

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Speaker 2: to our climate and clean energy law. We had seen

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Speaker 2: cancelations all across the EV battery supply chain. And again,

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Speaker 2: this is not smart because it's a gift to China.

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Speaker 3: China wants to.

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Speaker 2: Own, they want the competitive edge on all clean tech manufacturing,

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Speaker 2: and we were just starting to build up our supply

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Speaker 2: President now have thrown that all away at a time

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Speaker 2: when we're also grappling with the higher costs and impacts

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Speaker 3: What a tragic situation. In Texas.

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Speaker 2: My community is still rebuilding from Hurricanes Helena and Milton

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Speaker 2: that was supercharged by hotter Gulf waters. And that you know,

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Speaker 2: climate isn't just about the weather, it's about your wallet.

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Speaker 2: And now they have pretty much said we're not going

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Speaker 2: China and our Americans are going to have to grapple

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Speaker 2: with rising costs over time. It's really a sabotaging, a

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Speaker 2: self sabotage of this big, ugly bill.

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Speaker 4: Continuing on the subject of climate here, do you think

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Speaker 4: that the last minute changes that remove the XI tax

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Speaker 3: It helped, but it just wasn't as harmful.

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Speaker 2: So you would have seen just a complete death knell

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Speaker 2: But right now we're going to be grappling with rising

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Speaker 3: Hopefully many of those businesses.

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Speaker 2: Will hang on, but still China will continue to try

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Speaker 1: The Congressman, I want to shift gears and talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about medicaid and the health aspect of this.

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Speaker 1: Our producer, Elizabeth Cedrin crunch some numbers here and found

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Speaker 1: some really interesting stuff. If you're watching on YouTuber, Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Television or Bloomberg Originals, you can see here. The yellow

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Speaker 1: is Hillsborough County, Florida. A portion of that which falls

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Speaker 1: which falls into your district. Additionally, other counties as well

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Speaker 1: are in your district. But if you look at this,

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Speaker 1: a higher portion of folks in this county versus the

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Speaker 1: in the year of twenty twenty four, more than twenty

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Speaker 1: clearly a lot of people in your district are going

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Speaker 1: to be affected by this. How do you plan to

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Speaker 3: This is going to be very difficult.

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Speaker 2: Hospitals, doctors, nurses, the American Cancer Society, you name it.

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Speaker 2: They oppose these draconian cuts to people's healthcare because it's

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Speaker 2: going to cost lives. The other major impact besides Medicaid,

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Speaker 2: especially here in the state of Florida, that people will

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Speaker 2: feel by the end of the year, is the end

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Speaker 2: We have a lot of small business owners, we have

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Speaker 2: So while the Republicans sneakily said the Medicaid cuts will

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Speaker 2: happen maybe in a couple of years. What we're going

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Speaker 2: the ability of folks to afford health insurance for their families.

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Speaker 2: That mean small business owners will have to grapple with that,

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Speaker 3: This is going to cost lives and it's going to

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Speaker 4: We only have about thirty seconds left, but I want

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Speaker 4: to get your take on whether you think Democratic leadership

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Speaker 4: did enough to stop this bill from becoming a.

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Speaker 2: Law because of the dire consequences. I would say we

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Speaker 2: have not done enough. But this is very unpopular. Everywhere

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Speaker 2: I go. People are very angry. They're saying, we are

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Speaker 2: suffering through an affordability squeeze, and how dare the President

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Speaker 2: and make our lives more expensive at a time when

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Speaker 2: we really need help in our pocketbooks.

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Speaker 1: Congress women, really appreciate you taking the time and joining us.

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Speaker 1: Kathy Caster, Representative, a Democrat who represents the fourteenth District

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Speaker 1: of Florida. It includes Tampa parts of Hillsboro County. She

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Speaker 1: voted against the bill, joining us once again from Tampa Congresswoman,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much much