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Press Secretary Leavitt Says Trump Is Fixing Decades of Unfair Trade Practices, March 31, 2025

March 31, 2025 · The White House · 0:01:04

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What happened

In a White House clip published March 31, 2025, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump is “trying to fix decades of unfair trade practices” through trade and tariffs, according to the White House broadcast. Leavitt said the president and his economic team work on the effort every day, and that Trump is addressing not only the previous administration’s “incompetence and reckless spending” but decades of practices that “ripped our country off,” sent jobs overseas, and forced millions of Americans out of work, as stated in her remarks.

Leavitt said the president is also focused on extending his tax cuts — ending taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security — and called on Congress to get it done, according to the clip. She said inflation and gas prices are cooling because of the incoming “Trump energy boom,” and that regulatory rollbacks are saving Americans money, as stated in her remarks.

Why it matters

The clip is the White House’s concise framing of the spring 2025 economic agenda on the eve of the tariff announcements: tariffs as remedy for decades of unfair trade, paired with tax-cut extension and energy-driven price relief.

Sources: The White House, “Press Sec Karoline Leavitt: President Trump is ‘Trying to Fix Decades of Unfair Trade Practices.’”, 2025-03-31 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-03-31). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.