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Economist Justin Wolfers Breaks Down Where Trump’s Tariff Money Is Going
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The government is getting ready to pay $1.66 billion in tariff refunds to American businesses. But the consumers who had to pay the higher costs? No such luck.

Guest: Justin Wolfers, economist and professor at the University of Michigan.

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