White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt cited a quote from Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi to make the case that Democrats secretly agree with President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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She continued:

In fact, Democrats have long said that the United States of America has been ripped off by the countries around the world. They just don’t want to admit it now because it’s President Trump who is saying that.

In June of 1996, Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor. She urged her colleagues at the time to fight against the status quo trade policies that had contributed to America’s trade deficit with China. In fact, Nancy Pelosi said, “How far does China have to go? How much more repression, how big a trade deficit, how many jobs have to be lost for the American workers, how much dangerous proliferation has to exist, before members of this House of Representatives will say, ‘I will not endorse the status quo.’?”

Those are the words of Nancy Pelosi in 1996. Well, President Trump is finally answering her call 27 years later. Nancy Pelosi can thank President Trump today for the 104% retaliatory tariff that will be going into effect on China.