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Don Beyer: “The tariffs of $30 billion a year would wipe out over a third of the savings American families received from the…”

On the recordJune 26, 2018
The tariffs of $30 billion a year would wipe out over a third of the savings American families received from the doubling of the standard deduction in the tax reform bill.
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Don Beyer
Democratic · Virginia

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Beyer discusses the negative impact of tariffs on American families' tax savings.

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