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Riley Moore: “These unions are America first. They don't hire illegal…”

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

How to Get BlackRock out of Your State Capital with Rep.-Elect Riley Moore

Published December 4, 2024 | Video Starts at 24:23

That's not where I am. Right. I'm. I mean, I am America first and that's. These unions are America first. They don't hire illegal immigrants. They don't do that. That is outside their parameters. They don't do that. They hire Americans. There's no foreign folks working in these unions that are not U.S. citizens. (24:23–24:30)

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Asserts that certain unions prioritize American workers and do not hire illegal immigrants.

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“We have zero weeks in West Virginia. We have an abortion ban. It is zero weeks.”
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“We're the fifth largest energy producer in the United States, little West Virginia.”
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“The average coal miner, by the way, in West Virginia, union, union coal miners making $90,000 a year.”
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“There's only two blast furnaces in the entire country that makes tin plate steel. Only two. Now there's one, there's one left in Ohio.”
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“He [Sean O'Brien] was very vocally supportive when he met with us and other members of Congress about wanting Lori Chavez Dreamer.”
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“We banned transgender surgeries on minors in West Virginia.”
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“We got open carry, we got constitutional carry, campus carry.”
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“One of my bills, which was the parking lot [bill], so individuals could keep firearms in their vehicles at the place of work.”
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“The state has been on a really rapid rise in terms of economic growth here as of late, particularly in the manufacturing sector.”
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“Despite their efforts to destroy it in the coal industry, natural gas, we also do oil.”
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“That's because of Republican control coming back.”
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“I met with Sean O'Brien just a couple weeks ago, two, three weeks ago, as you know, as president of the Teamsters.”
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“I'm endorsed by, I think it's 15 different labor unions.”
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“The United Steelworkers do not want that acquisition to happen.”
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“Retired union workers [are not using Medicare].”
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“The government has created this incentive for the private sector [regarding health care and retirement].”
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“You can't push out the age of retirement [for labor workers].”
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“People die on job sites. Unfortunately, that happens.”
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“I divested our tax dollars out of BlackRock and then also created which I was the first elected official in the country to do that.”
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“We created the restricted financial institution list.”
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“We've had another eight states pass legislation just like we did with a restricted financial institution list throughout the country.”
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“This ESG scheme that they had out here that was destroying us was. I mean, which still persists today.”
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“We pushed back against it and got other states, you know, great state treasurers, patriotic people that helped stand up against this ESG…”
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“On the Jumpstart program, it's a really novel concept, only exists in West Virginia.”
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“My colleagues elected me into the leadership slot. So I am on the elk, as they call it, the Elected Leadership Committee.”
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“Our agenda is President Trump's agenda.”
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“Apparently staff can sue you now before they weren't able to [sue a member of Congress].”
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“President Trump's got the mandate and President Trump's got the vision.”
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