Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
MS NOW, Jen Psaki
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As you all know, it was another one of those Fridays where the news gods dumped a massive story on us, |
| 0:07.2 | with the Supreme Court striking down the vast majority of Donald Trump's tariffs and sending the president spiraling into an absolute toddler-esque temper tantrum on national television with some very creepy dark lighting in the briefing room, I would note. |
| 0:22.0 | Now, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, as Steph just mentioned, is going to join me here in |
| 0:25.1 | just a moment. My bet is he has some thoughts on that public tantrum. I'm also going to ask him |
| 0:29.9 | about his very direct message to Trump after the decision came down. Steph also referenced this. |
| 0:34.7 | He basically said, Illinois wants its money back, demanding the Trump |
| 0:39.1 | administration refund residents of his state $1,700 each for the money they lost to tariffs. |
| 0:45.9 | He even sent the Trump administration a literal invoice for the money. We'll show that. You can see that |
| 0:49.8 | right there. So there's a lot to talk with the governor of Illinois about tonight. And with a big |
| 0:54.9 | decision like this reversing one of Trump's most catastrophic economic policies and with Trump |
| 0:59.5 | threatening to try and revive the policy in almost any way he can, I think a lot of people are |
| 1:05.2 | wondering what this all means for the economy, from how much things cost to whether they will |
| 1:09.5 | actually ever see a dime back of the |
| 1:11.9 | cost of these tariffs. And the one person I can know who can answer all of these questions and |
| 1:17.7 | knows all the levers is Senator and Professor Elizabeth Warren, who's also going to join me here |
| 1:22.1 | later to explain what happens next. So we've got a lot to get to tonight, but I just want to start |
| 1:26.9 | with this. Every president |
| 1:28.8 | has specific things they like to focus on. And I work for two, I know this, certain issues or beliefs |
| 1:34.6 | or campaign slogans that they will go back to over and over again. But there's only one president |
| 1:40.2 | that I know who has taken such a liking to one particular word, a single noun from the |
| 1:47.0 | English language, which he seems to prize above all else. |
| 1:51.0 | I called Tariffs. I said, my favorite word in the whole dictionary is Tariff. |
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