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Pete Hegseth: “President Donald J. Trump looked at that managed decline, a…”

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to workers at Newport News Shipbuilding

Published | Video Starts at 02:16

And third, that a nation that cannot build things, a nation that can't create its own tools or its own defenses or its own future, is a nation that is in managed decline. President Donald J. Trump looked at that managed decline, a decline that had been accepted by elites in both parties, and he rejected it. And we fundamentally reject it. And in doing so, he has unleashed a great American revival, a reawakening of our industrial spirit and our national confidence. (02:16–02:26)

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