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Today's question comes from Brianna in Washington, D.C.

Can you explain how President Trump's new executive order on tariffs will affect me at a personal level?

Well, this is, my answer will be based on if the tariffs stand. Right now,

there's been an extension. If you're paying attention to the news, President Trump mentioned

the tariffs would take place, Canada, Mexico specifically, and then they responded, their

governments responded. And so now there is a, we'll call it a waiting period to see how this plays out.

But if the tariffs were to go into place, and I'm just going to be honest, so if this offends you, folks, honesty is what I'm going to go with.

Tariffs will affect us. There's no question. Even President Trump has said, and I quote, that prices will go up. There's no question that that's how tariffs work.

Even though a tariff is placed on a foreign country, that is on the goods and stuff that they would,

of course, export to American companies. And so American companies will have to pay the tariff.

The idea is to drive American goods, which I'm all for,

but there's no question that tariffs are passed on from American companies to American consumers.

So it's a long-held economic strategy. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. We'll see how this

plays out. It's too soon to tell because,

again, we've got a bit of a moratorium. But if they go into place on certain goods and services,

you will see an increase in cost. The question is how much of an increase in cost, and that

comes down to the American company that is, again, getting goods from Mexico or Canada. So that's how that works. And I've

never seen companies not pass on increased costs to customers across the board. I've got a friend

building a house in Cabo in Mexico. Yeah. And he just had some of his appliances and his plumbing fixtures shipped in from the states.

Mexico adds a 33%.

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