After Rubio's objection, Trump backpedaled and announced a new arrangement where OPEC Arab countries would invest in US infrastructure and AI centers domestically rather than pay tolls directly, serving the same function of extracting and recycling oil export revenues into US control.
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“Trump then backpedaled...They are going to pay us for the cost of our defending them as their guardian angel, but not through tolls. They're going to invest in the United States just as way back after 1975...They're going to invest in US industry as partners.”
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