Mike Rogers: “We've lost defense industrial base work.”

“And the results of that have not been good for us. Matter of fact, they're managing our decline. 30,000 lost manufacturing jobs. Our median wage has gone down. We've lost defense industrial base work. you know, building for the defense of the United States. All of it still happens, just happens south of Michigan. We need to change that. So get back into defense industrial base.” (00:37–00:41)

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