they like his infrastructure plans, of course. this is a president who is basically threatening the american industry. you will hire people here. buy american. hire american is what he said. my question is if you put border taxes and tariffs on the supply chain. what does that do? it jacks up prices. and the question of is there retribution from governments abroad? we live in a global economy. anything we do in that regard echos around. i have never heard a president say i know you made a lot of money over the past 30 years making stuff overseas and selling here. that will not fly anymore. no one has ever done that before. it really is you have to give it to president trump. no one has thought they could stand up to the global supply chain. we will see the effect.
our goal is to leverage as much as possible. our goal is to leverage not just roads and bridges and pipelines and faa reauthorization and so many other things. infrastructure involves many different aspects that create jobs and want to be as expansive as we can with regard to infrastructure. do you i am a policy guy. yesterday the president told business leaders that he had send [inaudible]. it isn t very clear what would be the defining line there. they would face a 35% border tax he called it for importing goods into the united states. what is your feeling about that? there is a difference between a riff and border taxes. i don t know if you re getting the phrase correct.
ourselves at a more competitive playing field so american businesses and jobs can compete. if we as american workers and businesses are putting ourselves on a level competitive playing field we ll do great. and that is not what our current tax system is today. now, tariffs are different than border taxes. tariffs are something the president has unilateral authority. in congress we have tax reform. we want tax reform that works for american businesses and jobs and i can t tell you how many hearings we ve had at ways and means where we see all these businesses leaving the country and we lost our biggest company in wisconsin, johnson controls is an irish company, miller is an they re a belgian company. we re losing our seed corn and we have to fix the tax system that is pushing jobs and businesses overseas and this is something we think is clearly going to get our system reset
and assembled in one place and sold in the united states. he did specifically call out japan. that raised a lot of eyebrows. he talked about japan was part of the tpp, by the way. he called out japan in particular. and japan, japanese companies, they have american workers in this country. they build cars in south carolina and other places. so we re basically seeing how the policy is coming out, whether it s in tax reform that they put these border taxes on and the like, and that will require, you know, some working out with paul ryan and folks in the house. another meeting he s having later tonight. great to see you, thank you, christine. coming up, he s become his own meme and the face of alternative facts. how will white house press secretary sean spicer approach the first official white house briefing, you know, with actually questions and answers? questions and answers. plus the now former cia director under president obama says president trump should be ashamed of himsel
i don t get it. remember, this is an administration that was going for tpp. going for multilateral trade deals and moving forward with trade and free trade. boy, the brakes have been put on that. tal kopan is here and eugene scott. interesting time to talking to outgoing cabinet secretaries when they watch the new team come to town. she was pushing how strong the u.s. economy is and how she this the incoming trump team is wrong about trade and about protectionism. she said she talked about wilbur ross about that. it will be interesting to see how quickly the gears are switched. you know, one question how quickly they can be and how fast the trump administration can move on the promises on trade. it is not that easy to put in border taxes and renegotiate treaties. they have to have time to work this out. it will be interesting to see if once in office, if the