Trump says he'll create 'External Revenue Service' to collect tariffs, foreign revenue

Just in case anyone is not clear on this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Customs_and_Border_Protection

Though its commonly thought of as only 'Border Patrol', the CBP manages import tariffs, documentation, all the paperwork on that stuff.

They have done this since 2003 when Homeland Security was established, and the US Customs Service, Border Patrol, and Immigration and Naturalization Service were basically merged, and put under Homeland Security.

Trump is again proposing the establishment of an agency to do a thing for which there is already an agency that does that thing.

The first being DOGE, which basically just does what GAO, the Government Accountability Office does. Except that they use actually qualified, non partisan workers to analyze budget and policy impacts... whereas DOGE is apparently going to be unpaid, highly political volunteers, hand picked by Vivek and Elon to work 80 hours a week for nothing.

Is this not what US Customs already does?

WORDS MEAN THINGS!

Lol and that specially collected money goes straight into his and his cronies pockets, right? Its fascinating how obvious and blatant his schemes are, and nobody bats an eye.

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