We would have had, if I didn't do in my first term, tariffs to stop the onslaught because they were dumping steel in order to destroy our steel plants. If I didn't do 50% and even 100% in certain cases, tariffs, well, on steel, you wouldn't have a steel plant in the United States. And Biden was unable to get rid of those tariffs because they threw off so much money that his numbers, which didn't work anyway because his numbers were terrible. (29:15–29:24)
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Asserts that high tariffs on steel were necessary to maintain U.S. steel plants.
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