'America First Works—Anytime Someone Tells You It Doesn't, It Does': Laura Ingraham Praises Tariffs

At a Turning Point USA Event in Tampa, Florida on Friday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham spoke about the impact of tariffs on the U.S. economy.

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00:00Now, the good news on the economic front, I especially love this because it's so delicious

00:10given all of the predictable drumbeat about tariffs, right? It was like, the tariffs are

00:16going to cause inflation. They didn't care about inflation when Biden was, you know,

00:21creating it, but now suddenly they care about inflation. The tariffs are going to cause

00:24inflation. Tariffs are going to cause a recession. Tariffs are going to cause a spike in prices.

00:29Well, what did we find out this week? This kills the media to report it, by the way.

00:33Japanese automakers announced what? They're going to raise prices? No. Japanese automakers

00:39announced this week that they are slashing auto prices for imports coming into the United States.

00:45Now, why are they doing that? Why are they doing that? They're doing that because the tariffs

00:52make them, force them to be competitive. They can't pass on the cost to the consumers

00:58because we're not going to pay that, right? So they have to cut prices. That's just one

01:02of many examples. And then today, late today, this was so great on a Friday, because sometimes

01:07Fridays, news cycles aren't so great, but today was great. So Scott Besson announces, with that

01:12kind of wry smile he has, which I love, Scott Besson announces, well, it turns out that in June

01:20of this year, we have a $27 billion surplus in the United States. Surplus.

01:31Now, huh, I wonder why that happened. That happened because of the tariffs and the money

01:39that the tariffs brought into the United States. Now, let's go back a year when Sleepy Joe was

01:44getting ready for that debate, and he was all shot up with a B-12 or whatever the heck

01:48they were giving him, peppy pills that didn't kick in. So remember that. Last June, what

01:54was happening? A $74 billion budget deficit for the month of June. So in one year, with

02:05this president and this economic team, we've had a $100 billion swing to the green. That is

02:14awesome news. And then, and it keeps getting, this is like one of the infomercials, it keeps

02:21getting better. There's more. Okay, there's more. The Ginsu knife comes in really quickly.

02:26All right. On job creation, again, America first works. Anytime someone tells you it doesn't,

02:33it does. So for job creation, last year, jobs created in the Obama, in the Biden administration,

02:40only 52% went to native-born Americans. Okay? 52%. It's ridiculous, right? So much of it was going

02:48to illegal immigrants or foreign workers. From January to the end of June, 100% of the new jobs

02:59went to native-born Americans. Awesome. Love it. It's so great. All right. And, oh, I know you're

03:12sad to hear this, but foreign jobs, sorry, 550,000 of those were lost to foreign workers. That's a

03:20good thing. Like, those jobs are going to Americans now, so it's all good.