Kevin Hassett agreed that the potential rollout of tariff refunds “is a mess” after trying—and failing—to explain how the system would actually work.
“It would be very complicated,” he told host Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday. It was soon after the Director of the National Economic Council, 63, seemingly admitting that some impacts of tariffs were, in fact, paid by companies and consumers.
Donald Trump’s refund plan has been floated for months, with the president’s brainwave of issuing $2000 rebates currently tied to a larger tariff debate in the Supreme Court.
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