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All right.

Welcome back to the Dennis Prager show.

I'm speaking to E.J. Antony, Ph.D.

Economist at the Heritage Foundation.

Make sure you check them out online on X at Real E.J. Antony. And you spell Antony, A. N-T-O-N-I. So let me ask you this, E-J.

I mean, given the fact that Trump has inherited a horrific economy, I feel like he's got a lot of digging to do.

He's got to dig us out of the whole Biden administration

put us over $8 trillion worth of debt. I mean, obviously we got a drill, baby drill. What are some

other ways that, what are some other things in your opinion that Trump needs to do to bring this

economy roaring back? Well, I think continuing the terroriff fight has to be a big part of that.

We forget that countries like Canada have a tremendous amount of tariff and non-tariff barriers on a lot of American producers,

whether we're talking farmers or factory workers.

In fact, one of the reasons why Trump chose that 25% rate, I think,

was because that's roughly what China puts on a lot of our dairy farmers, for example,

on a lot of our car exports. And so what he's really doing is essentially just trying to level

the playing field. And if he can get a better deal via via this

tariff fight, then that's going to make it easier for Americans to export our products

around the world. That means you're going to see an increase in domestic production.

That means an increase in employment. It also means faster real wage growth. So all of these

things are very,

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