White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reacted negatively to a loaded question from an Associated Press reporter about tariffs.
Leavitt was answering questions from journalists on Tuesday during a news conference at the White House when Associated Press reporter Josh Boak inquired about the administration’s trade policies as President Donald Trump was preparing to address the Business Roundtable.
“When President Trump last addressed the BRT when he was on the campaign trail, his big push was on tax cuts,” Boak told Leavitt. “He’s going there today as he’s proposing tax hikes in the form of tariffs, and I’m curious why he’s prioritizing that over the tax cuts?”
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Leavitt replied that “he’s actually not implementing tax hikes.”
“Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries that,
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