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Pete Hegseth: “We used to pay for the building too and then pay for the…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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And look, we ought to they're building things for us. But to suggest that somehow they're making an investment that they're not going to get compensated through sales is just, it's honestly kind of ridiculous. We used to pay for the building too and then pay for the sales and now we're paying for the sales but not the building. which I think is a good and they're not embedding that in the price of the things that they're selling to us. (1:44:04–1:44:11)

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Asserts a shift in policy where the government no longer funds factory construction, only purchases.

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