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On February 1, President Trump signed executive orders that will slap 25% tariffs on all products from Mexico and Canada, and 10% tariffs from China, ostensibly to punish those governments for failing to stop undocumented immigration and fentanyl shipments into the United States (‘stopping the flood of illegal aliens and drugs” according to the White House fact sheet).

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

His tariffs combined with big >$4 TRILLION tax cuts for the wealthy are a way of dumping tax burden to the poor while distracting with immigration

It’s also isolating and degrading the US globally which is trumps gift to his daddy putin