"Are You KIDDING Me?!?" - CNN SHOCKED As Dems' Economic Numbers HIT ROCK BOTTOM

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Tariff revenue hits record highs as egg prices drop under Trump. CNN admits Republicans now lead on the economy and middle-class support. The panel breaks down the numbers, media spin, and why Democrats are losing ground across key voter blocs.

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0:00.0	Check this out, folks. Prices of eggs, tariffs, revenue. You have to see what this chart looks like.
0:07.4	Look at the amount of income America is now making with tariffs last couple months. Let me first read
0:12.3	it, Rob. Trump's tariff shadow records, $22.3 billion in May as revenue doubles. The U.S.
0:17.3	tariff record hit a 22.3 following April 16 and a half. Customs and excise
0:21.5	taxes have more than doubled in just two months. Year today, the government has collected
0:25.3	$67.2 billion in tariff revenue. Now, tariffs now represent 4% of the federal revenue up from
0:31.4	just 2%. This is what America First Trade Policy looked in action. Every billion collected
0:37.2	is a billion less tax than American have to pay.
0:39.1	Look at this.
0:39.7	Pull it up, Rob, if you can click on it.
0:41.6	This since what month?
0:43.0	Since 2005, zoom out a little bit more, Rob, if you could.
0:46.1	Look at you from 05.
0:47.3	Look at the spike in tariff revenue.
0:49.5	This is from the Department of U.S. Treasury.
0:52.2	Look at that.
0:53.3	Barely anything.
0:56.6	And then all of a sudden, boom! We're doing a couple billion a month in tariff revenue.
0:59.7	Even prior to him getting in, it was $9 billion.
1:03.2	He takes $9 billion to $22 billion.
1:05.6	Can you go to the next chart wrap on prices of a, uh, uh, look at this one here.
1:09.8	Egg prices have now declined 62% since President Trump's inauguration.
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