Karoline Leavitt pledges Trump will bring down prices as she takes aim at 'crap' DEI projects

Press caput Karoline Leavitt said Monday that President Donald Trump remained 'wholeheartedly committed' to bringing down nutrient prices contempt his existent acceptable of tariff threats. 

Leavitt appeared connected Fox News and besides talked with reporters extracurricular the White House arsenic Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by telephone Monday afternoon. 

Ahead of taking bureau Trump pledged to enforce 25 percent tariffs connected U.S. allies and neighbors, Canada and Mexico, for not doing much to assistance patrol the borders. 

Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, person pointed retired that the tariffs would lone marque nutrient costs much expensive, arsenic curbing inflation was 1 of the reasons voters decided to springiness Trump different 4 years. 

Leavitt argued that securing the borderline was much important successful the short-term. 

'While Chuck Schumer is whining astir the outgo of a pint of beer, President Trump is talking astir redeeming American lives,' the 27-year-old property caput said connected Fox News. 

She besides justified billionaire DOGE person Elon Musk's battle connected USAID - the United States Agency for International Development, which provides billions successful planetary assistance astir the world. 

Leavitt highlighted immoderate of USAID's much eyebrow-raising expenses, arsenic detailed earlier Monday by DailyMail.com.

'And here's the crushed wherefore Elon Musk and others person been taking a look,' Leavitt said. 'If you look astatine the discarded and maltreatment that has tally done USAID implicit the past respective years, these are immoderate of the insane priorities that that enactment has been spending wealth on.'

She past work from a expanse of insubstantial she had brought along.  

'$1.5 cardinal to beforehand DEI successful Serbia's workplaces, $70,000 for a accumulation of a DEI philharmonic successful Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera successful Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic publication successful Peru,' she said. 

'I don't cognize astir you, but arsenic an American payer I don't privation my dollars going toward this crap and I cognize the American radical don't either and that's precisely what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to bash - to get the fraud, discarded and maltreatment retired of the national government,' Leavitt said.

Musk's takeover of USAID has near authorities employees and contractors shocked and Democrats angered. 

A fig of Democratic lawmakers showed up extracurricular the bureau Monday to amusement enactment aft employees were turned distant from the D.C. office Monday morning. 

Currently Secretary of State Marco Rubio has taken implicit arsenic the acting head of USAID. 

The tariff threats besides sent markets tumbling earlier Monday but Leavitt denied that had immoderate interaction connected Trump striking a speedy woody with Mexico. 

By Monday evening a akin woody was worked retired with Canada arsenic well. 

'It had nary decision. What impacted the hold connected the tariffs was the president of Mexico committing to putting 10,000 imperishable soldiers connected the U.S.-Mexican border,' Leavitt said. 

'The president cares astir American lives,' she continued. 'And arsenic I conscionable said connected television, there's a batch of speech astir the markets, there's a batch of speech astir the outgo of goods, this medication is wholeheartedly committed to bringing down the outgo of surviving successful this country.' 

'You spot that done deregulation, done the vigor actions this president has taken, besides done his committedness to cutting taxes, but erstwhile it comes to the outgo of an American life, I deliberation that for those of america who person children, there's not capable wealth successful the satellite to bring backmost the lives who person been mislaid due to the fact that of the amerciable cause and borderline crisis,' she said.

'And the president is committed to ensuring that Canada and Mexico and China recognize that the United States is not going to beryllium a dumping crushed for amerciable fentanyl that are sidesplitting young radical successful this country,' Leavitt noted. 

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