… and that is that foreign policy cannot be separated from economic policy, from border, from energy policy, from any of these other spheres that are critical to our national interest. A country that cannot build ships or produce medicine or control immigration or access vital resources, cannot defend its people, cannot defend its interests, and cannot defend its way of life. So our foreign policy continues to be reoriented around the real foundations of national strength. This budget is yet another step, I believe, in that direction. (04:17–04:29)
CLAIM
Asserts that a country must have industrial, medical, immigration, and resource capabilities to defend itself and its interests.
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