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WASHINGTON ― The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon’s reported plans to list the prices of President Donald Trump’s tariffs next to products.
“I just got off the phone with the president about the Amazon announcement. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an April 29 briefing with reporters.
“Why did Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in four years?” she said, adding that “it’s not really a surprise” because “Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm.”
Amazon’s decision to single out the cost of Trump’s tariffs on consumers, first reported by Punchbowl News, has set up a clash between Trump and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has sought to curry favor with the new administration and met with Trump multiple times since his election win.
This is a developing story.
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