Even industries like auto manufacturing were severely disrupted by the lack of global chip supplies. The Trump administration had already contemplated the issue of chips in this vulnerability before COVID. and asked Congress to act. And I still remember the Secretary of State particular Mike Pompeo and the Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, were the first ones in the first Trump administration to bring this to the attention and to sound the alarm. (11:01–11:08)
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Asserts that the Trump administration considered the vulnerability of chip supply before COVID.
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