The APIs, as you know, are the precursor chemicals and compounds that go into building a variety of pharmaceutical drugs. During COVID it was became clear that we did not have any control. We were not producing. We were virtually producing no APIs. They're all coming from China and India, most of them from China. So President Trump has made this a priority, and we have. In addition to the 325 billion that we're putting into it, there's also a million that we're putting into it. (01:09–01:15)
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Asserts that the U.S. was not producing APIs, with most coming from China.
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