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Riley Moore: “We laid off a thousand United Steel workers and that tin…”

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

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Which is in law. Right. Anti dumping and did not receive that. And then subsequent to that, the ITC International Trade Commission voted 3, 0, no tariffs. So what happened? We laid off a thousand United Steel workers and that tin plate steel manufacturing facility idled. Now the scary thing to think about is that 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. (46:53–47:00)

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Asserts that a thousand United Steel workers were laid off due to lack of tariff relief.

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