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Riley Moore: “Having our supply chains stretch so far overseas for these…”

Featuring: Riley Moore, Republican | U.S. House West Virginia, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 32:31

… have offshored all of this stuff for so long and now we have seen the frailty in these supply chains and also that it does cause a national security risk. Having our supply chains stretch so far overseas for these critical end items that need to be created here in the United States, is that, yes, it's a. Holy crap. What are we going to do? We need 400,000 guys in a shipyard. Yes. I mean, it's, it has to move faster, like much faster than it is right now. And our biggest peer competitor out there, our adversary, China, they get it. (32:31–32:46)

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Asserts that the U.S. needs 400,000 workers in shipyards due to overseas supply chain issues.

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