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Maria Cantwell: “We have 150,000 people who work in aerospace, but there's 2…”

Featuring: Maria Cantwell, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Washington

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Discussion with Senator Maria Cantwell and former USTRs, Carla Hills and Susan Schwab

Published | Video Starts at 40:26

Because we're trying to speak for these small businesses and supply chains that Susan so eloquently articulated. And it's a big challenge. I mean, just take aerospace for a second. I mean, We have 150,000 people who work in aerospace, but there's 2 million people in the United States of America. So if you just take China out of the equation for aerospace, that's like, I think we're, you know, it's like 30, probably 30% of the market you're taking away just because all of a sudden we're in a trade war. (40:26–40:32)

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Asserts that 150,000 people work in aerospace in the U.S., out of 2 million in the industry nationwide.

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