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Congressional forecasters say President Trump's tariffs could raise trillions of dollars

over the next decade if they remain in place.

NPR Scott Horstead reports that could help to offset much of the cost of extending the

2017 tax cuts, but there are a lot of ives.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that tariff revenue could reduce

the federal deficit by $2.8 trillion between now and 2035. That's more than the $2.4 trillion,

the House-pass budget bill is expected to add to the deficit during that time.

The tariff forecast assumes most of the import taxes currently in place survive legal

challenges and are made permanent.

It does not account for today's doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs or the prospect of higher

tariff rates in the future.

In addition to raising revenue, the CBO predicts the tariffs

will lead to somewhat higher inflation this year and next, as well as slower economic growth.

Scott Horsley. Empire News, Washington.

Three Democratic senators are appealing to health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reverse recent

changes to federal policy concerning COVID-19 vaccines.

NPR's Rob Stein has that story.

Senators Tammy Duckworth, Elizabeth Warren, and Lisa Blunt, Rochester sent Kennedy a letter

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