The president has brought in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, trillions in commitments to build in this country, which is incredibly exciting to have a president who believes in American industry, in the American worker. We know that Thousands of factories, maybe 50,000, 70,000 factories were scraped from America and millions of jobs were lost. I grew up in the industrial heartland. I saw communities hollowed out. What it did to families and what it did to opportunity. (17:55–18:04)
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