President Donald Trump, left, sat down with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, right, on Monday evening. The interview was surprisingly tough at times. Allison Robbert/Michael M. Santiago/AFP/Getty Images

President Trump’s Fox News interviewers are sometimes so promotional and deferential that little gets challenged, and almost no news is ever made.

However, Laura Ingraham was more strategic than that. On Monday, she sat down with Trump and scrutinized several of his policy proposals, channeling dissension within the pro-Trump ranks — and seemingly catching the president off guard.

Sounding skeptical of Trump’s “costs are way down” defensiveness, the conservative Fox host asked, “Are you saying voters are misperceiving how they feel?”

Ingraham also asked about his stance on the government

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