Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett comes out against President Trump's tariffs.
"Trade should not be a weapon," he said. "It's a big mistake, in my view, when you have 7.5 billion people that don't like you very well, and you got 300 million that are crowing in some way about how well they've done."
"Trade should not be a weapon," he said. "It's a big mistake, in my view, when you have 7.5 billion people that don't like you very well, and you got 300 million that are crowing in some way about how well they've done."
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"We wouldn't want to be owning anything that we thought was in a currency that was really going to hell. And that's the big thing we worry about with the United States currency."
The U.S. "needs incredible improvement, rethinking, redirection, even to some extent, in the grid," he said.
"It doesn't work so well when you get 48 or 50 jurisdictions that each has their own way of thinking about things."
"It's a job I don't want. But it's a job I think should be done. And Congress does not seem good at doing it."
Yet DOGE hasn't balanced the budget either. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/doge-impact-washington-spending-100days-00316587