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Elissa Slotkin: “We need to make chips in America by American workers, by…”

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

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NABTU Legislative Conference 2026 - Sen. Elissa Slotkin Remarks

Published | Video Starts at 16:33

I'm sorry, every one of you has chips in your pocket right now. We're using chips for everything we need. And China is able to have a stranglehold on us because of those chips. We need to make chips in America by American workers, by union workers, period. And then lastly on power, right, the ones many of you know a lot about, we cannot do what we need to do in the economy unless we update our grid in a serious way, period. (16:33–16:40)

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