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Elissa Slotkin: “Over the last decade or so, we've been really at the mercy…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Slotkin Speaks out on Senate Floor Against Republican Proposal to Fund ICE

Published | Video Starts at 09:07

You have a cell phone, you have. You have some sort of piece of technology that depends on chips. They're in everything that we use, everything we need to grow our economy. And Over the last decade or so, we've been really at the mercy of China when it comes to chips. I want to make chips here in America with American factories and American labor, and I want chips to put Americans to work. (09:07–09:14)

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Asserts U.S. dependency on China for chips over the last decade.

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