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Channel GOP · Speech · Monday, October 19, 2026

Trump promised to cut costs on day one. Pete Buttigieg says the opposite happened.

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Taking student questions at UNC Charlotte with More Perfect University, Pete Buttigieg says people are angry because this president promised lower costs, yet tariffs have people paying more and "everything got more expensive." He adds that many also believed promises to keep the US out of a new war and to drain the swamp, saying "the only thing they've drained out there is the reflecting pool."

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Pete Buttigieg
Where
other - student Q&A at UNC Charlotte with More Perfect University
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46 seconds, unedited within the cut
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At the same time people are pissed because they voted thinking that certain things are going to happen in their lives. A lot of people believe this president said, I'm gonna cut your costs on day one. He said he was fourth he was going to do that. In the in the opposite happened. The tariffs have us paying more gas, diesel, diesel prices up hill. Everything got more expensive. But, people believe him. It kind of gets Just like a lot of people believed him when he said he was going to keep us out of a new war, right? A lot of people even believed him when he said he was going to Drain the swamp. I mean the only thing they've drained out there is the reflecting pool in front of like a memorial But but some people really believe that right and so I think the conversation

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