Elissa Slotkin: “China is looking to set up factories in Mexico.”

“Into the U.S. yeah, there's some less than perfect things about tariffs in general. And that's why I'm looking at sort of interesting national security levers we can pull, because if China is looking to set up factories in Mexico. we don't want to let them just put those companies there as shell companies send their vehicles over the border. So we're looking at national security ways we can put up hurdles and stop that from happening.” (03:36–03:53)

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