we are joined by oren cass, founder and chief at american compass and brendan duke of the center for american progress. tell us about your mission and funding. guest: the miss it -- the mission is emphasizing the importance of family, community and industry to the nation of stress liberty and prosperity. we are on the right of center trying to push the republican party and conservatives away from just blind faith in free markets and more focus on what is good for workers, family and the nation as a whole. as you might imagine, we are funded by foundations all across the political spectrum, individuals across the political spectrum, corporations, and we received funding from limit labor union it. so pretty much everybody. host: and what about you? guest: said for american fund works to fund a more equitable and just economy peered our funding comes from several donors but we are an independent think tank and we call the shots. host: i want to start with inflation because that seems to be the biggest concern among voters. brendan, vice president harris said she would crackdown on food

host: oren cass, go ahead. guest: we have talked about the tariff issue a bunch, it is factually incorrect that 100% of the tariff is paid by the consumers. you could hypothetically have a situation where that is the case , but, in fact, it is more complicated. some does get paid by consumers. son gets paid by companies in the middle. some gets paid by the producer. it's also really important to keep in mind what we mean when we say "american corporation." right? if a chinese company wants to import something into the u.s. and sets up an american subsidiary to import. and then has to be a tariff on that import, i guess that is technically an american corporation paying an import, but i would say, good. i do think it's important to think about what we want to achieve, do we want to favor domestic manufacturing over imports? and if we do, then yes, there is a, cost of that but i think it was a much bigger benefit. i want to acknowledge the infrastructure act and the chips , those are good examples of the policies

. >>> welcome back to washington journal and were joined by oren cass, founder and chief economist at american compass and brendan duke, senior director for economic policy at the center for american progress-action fun. welcome to both of you. we will start with you on, you found that american compass in 2020 so tell us about the mission and the funding. >> our mission is to restore an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of family and community and industry to the nation's liberty and prosperity. we work mostly on the right of center trying to push publican party and conservatism away from just blind faith in free markets and more focus on what's good for workers, their families and the nation as a whole. as you might imagine, accordingly, our funding, we are funded by foundations across the political spectrum, individuals across the political spectrum, some funding from corporations. we have received funding from one labor union. so pretty much everybody. we tackle the boxes. >> and what about you? >> the center for american progress action fund is a progressive think

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