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Elissa Slotkin: “We cannot get shipments of natural resources through the…”

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

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Slotkin Speaks at Detroit Economic Club

Published | Video Starts at 14:45

I mean, if you can't negotiate peace right away and you can't broker an agreement, what happens moving forward in the next three, three months, six months here? Well, look, I mean, we're going to continue to pay at the pump because We cannot get shipments of natural resources through the Strait of Hormuz. That's just the point. And then if we go back into a situation of conflict like we've seen in the last 24 hours, the prices of goods spike again, including oil, spike again because people feel like we're even further from a resolution. (14:45–14:51)

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Asserts that shipments of natural resources are blocked through the Strait of Hormuz.

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