Speaker Johnson says President Trump should be given space to enact his tariff policy.
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00:00I think you've got to give the President the latitude, the runway to do what it is he was
00:07elected to do, and that is get this economy going again and get our trade properly balanced
00:11with other countries.
00:12So I think most of the American people understand the necessity of that.
00:15Listen, we had a $1.2 trillion trade deficit in 2024.
00:20I don't think that's fair to our country.
00:22I think the American people understand that, and I think they see a President who's engaging
00:26and trying to fix that.
00:27So we're going to give him the space necessary to do it, and we'll see how it all develops.