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Pete Buttigieg: “Manufacturing jobs which went up and up and up... went down…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete Responds To Trump's Speech, Live on CNN

Published | Video Starts at 03:25

Right. So it's not just that we're paying more, it's that these economic measures are getting worse. We saw economic growth dramatically slowing in the last quarter. We saw Manufacturing jobs which went up and up and up... went down in the course of the last year. So you got to ask yourself, well, what's changed in 2025 compared to before? And obviously what changed is the president. There are some other things that the president talked about that would address affordability. (03:25–03:32)

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Asserts that manufacturing jobs decreased over the last year.

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