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Jared Golden: “We've lost like 30, 35,000 manufacturing jobs in this…”

Featuring: Jared Golden, Democratic | U.S. House, Maine's 2nd Congressional District

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The Global Tariff with Rep. Jared Golden

Published | Video Starts at 05:22

And to be honest, like, I've long been pretty skeptical of free trade deals, things like nafta. I've always considered myself a labor Democrat. I'm from Maine, particularly northern Maine, rural Maine. We've lost like 30, 35,000 manufacturing jobs in this century [in Maine]. So in the last 25 or so years. So I think it's pretty natural that, that I would be skeptical of the trade deals like NAFTA or China's entry into the World Trade Organization. (05:22–05:28)

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Asserts that Maine has lost 30,000 to 35,000 manufacturing jobs in the last 25 years.

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